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A royal meeting in 1954

October 29, 2012Photography, Sanaa, Saudi Arabia, Yementabsir


The image above is a photograph taken in 1954 at a meeting in Sanaa of Imam Ahmad and the Saudi king Ibn Saud by an unknown photographer. The image can be found on an extraordinary website of historic images at Das Bild des Orients, which is well worth perusing.

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