Things that glow and grow.Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres, and Security Adviser Ariel Sharon in the Golan Heights, December 1975 (photo: Yaacov Sa’ar).Artist Anna Dittman and her mural of Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda in Edinburgh (photo: Jane Barlow via PA Images).Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with former Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Mashal and the former Vice Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar on October 28, 2016 (photo: handout by the Palestinian Presidency).A Holy Carpet brought to Jerusalem by the Sherif of Medina; the Grand Mufti and Sherif in carriage, 1914 (photograph from the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection).Sir Vincent Arthur Henry McMahon.Sharif Husayn, the Prince of Mecca.A flag bearer mounted on a camel leading the triumphal entry into Akaba — part of the Arab Revolt 1916–1918; part of WWI — July 6, 1917 (photo: Thomas Edward Lawrence).Left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Rosario Pisani (behind Faisal), T. E. Lawrence (a.k.a., “Lawrance of Arabia”), Faisal’s slave (whose name, unfortunately, was never recorded) and Captain Hassan Khadri, 1919 unknown photographer.“The Arab Revolt” (1916–1918) was a military uprising by Arab forces, led by Sharif Hussein bin Ali of Mecca and supported by the British, against the Ottoman Empire during WWI. Beginning in June of 1916, its goal was to establish an independent Arab state from Yemen in the south all the way to Syria in the north . The revolt gave rise to ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and was rather beneficial to the British as it significantly contributed to the collapse of the Othtam Empire’s reign over the Middle East.
