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Joseph Naayem in the Bedouin disguise of his escape

Date: 1910s

Joseph Naayem, author of Shall This Nation Die?, in Bedouin dress beside a horse, the disguise in which, the caption says, he escaped from the Turks. Frontispiece of the 1921 book.

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Naayem, Shall This Nation Die? (1921), via Internet Archive

Joseph Naayem · Public domain (published 1921)

Joseph Naayem in the Bedouin disguise of his escape

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