Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa El-Nahhas Pasha welcoming in Cairo in 1939 some of the Palestinian leaders returning from the Seychelles islands where they were exiled by the British.
Front row seated from right to left: Palestinian nationalist Alfred Roch – Yaaqoub Al-Ghossayn – Mostafa El-Nahhas Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt and leader of the nationalist Wafd Party – Palestinian nationalist Ahmad Hilmi Pasha, future Prime Minister of the All-Palestine Government – Awni Abdel-Hadi, Palestinian nationalist and future Jordanian Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt – Rashid Al-Haj Ibrahim, Palestinian nationalist from Haifa.
Standing in the first row from right to left: Most are not identified save Makram Ebeid Pasha, senior Wafd Party leader and future minister appearing in the centre of the picture between Nahhas Pasha and Hilmi Pasha – Abdelhamid Shoman, founder of the Arab Bank, appearing in Arab head-dress – Eltaher at the third row back. All the others are unknown.
