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A historic photograph of the Fifth Palestinian Arab Congress in 1922

A historic photograph of the Fifth Palestinian Arab Congress, which convened in the city of Nablus after the Palestinian delegation returned from London, on 22 August 1922. The congress adopted the following charter: “We, the representatives of Palestine and members of the Fifth Palestinian Congress, swear before God, the nation, and history that we will continue the legitimate efforts to achieve independence and Arab unity and reject the Jewish national home and Zionist immigration.”

In the photograph, the first row from the right, seated on the ground: 1 - Shaykh Ahmad al-Zuraydat 2 - Abdallah Samara 3 - Shaykh Ibrahim Abu Raqiq 4 - Jamil al-Husseini 5 - Shaykh Furayh Abu Madin 6 - Shibli al-Jamal 7 - Salim Abd al-Rahman 8 - Shaykh Hamad al-Sani‘ 9 - .......

The second row from the right, seated on chairs: 1 - Shaykh Sa‘id Murad 2 - Hasan Badr 3 - Abd al-Qadir Yusuf Abd al-Hadi 4 - Amin Nurallah 5 - Shaykh Badr Yunus 6 - Abd al-Latif Salah 7 - Shaykh Sulayman al-Taji al-Faruqi 8 - Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Muzaffar 9 - Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini 10 - al-Hajj Tawfiq Hammad 11 - al-Hajj Sa‘id al-Shawwa 12 - Shaykh Muhammad Murad 13 - Muhammad al-Surani 14 - al-Hajj Shafi‘ Abd al-Hadi 15 - Shaykh Abdallah Tahbub 16 - Yusuf Diya al-Dajani.

The third row from the right, standing: 1 - Ibrahim al-Shammash 2 - Shaykh Fahmi Basiso 3 - George Abd al-Nur 4 - Mu‘in al-Madi 5 - Isma‘il Agha al-Nimr 6 - Shaykh Sa‘id al-Khatib 7 - Shukri al-Taji al-Faruqi 8 - Husayn al-Ubayd 9 - Husni Khayyal 10 - Khalil Basiso 11 - Rafiq al-Tamimi 12 - Dr. Sidqi Mulhas 13 - Shaykh Yusuf Amin 14 - Afif Abd al-Hadi 15 - Salih al-Safadi 16 - Alyan Abu Gharbiyya 17 - Asim Basiso 18 - Anthony al-Ghuri 19 - Amin al-Tamimi.

The fourth row from the right, standing: 1 - Sidqi al-Tabari 2 - Muhammad Izza Darwaza 3 - Mustafa Abu Hajla 4 - Abd al-Raouf Darwish Ahmad 5 - Ahmad al-Shakma 6 - Ali al-Naqib al-Husseini 7 - Isa al-Isa 8 - Yusuf al-Qamashi 9 - Fahmi al-Abbushi 10 - Abdallah Mukhlis 11 - Ahmad al-Imam 12 - Yusuf Yasin 13 - Sulayman Tanus 14 - Hanna al-Bahri 15 - Shaykh Hasan Abu al-Sa‘ud 16 - Adib Abu Dabba 17 - Musa Sahwil 18 - Dr. Mustafa Bushnaq.

The fifth row, standing from the right: 1 - Farid Fakhr al-Din 2 - Jibran Quzma 3 - Shaykh Husayn Abu Sitta 4 - Jamil al-Husseini 5 - al-Hajj Ibrahim al-Sani‘ 6 - Rashid al-Hajj Ibrahim 7 - Shaykh Muhammad al-Saqar 8 - Amin Jarqura 9 - Kamil al-Dajani 10 - Khalil al-Sakakini 11 - ....... 12 - Hashim al-Jayusi 13 - Ishaq Darwish.