Emir Feisal, future King of Iraq, arriving at Basra on a British Battle ship in June 1921. On hearing of Feisal's arrival, my father Selim Z. Obadiah travelled to Basra to take the above photograph and to his amazement found nobody there to greet the Emir. He therefore walked right up to him, smiled at him and took this photograph with his Kodak Brownie camera.

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