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Publishing date: Apr 15, 2021 • 15 hours ago • 3 minute read • This combination of pictures shows (left to right) a photo dated July 1951, of King Abdullah I of Transjordania during an official ceremony; and an early 1920s portrait of his father Sharif Hussein ibn Ali, head of the Hashemite clan, Emir of Mecca, and later King of the Hejaz and head of the Arab Nationalist Movement seeking independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1916. Photo by handout photos /AFP via Getty Images
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Colonization of Asia and Africa may have ended after the Second World War, but maps drawn as straight lines by our former Anglo-French masters after the First World War still haunt the people who live there.