English: Officials attending the preparatory meeting to draft the Alexandria Protocol, which led to the creation of the Arab League in 1945 – Photograph taken in Alexandria in September 1944

Front row right to left: Sheikh Fozan Al-Sabeq, Saudi ambassador to Egypt – Unidentified – Hussein Sirri Pasha, several times Prime Minister of Egypt – Possibly Prince Saud or Prince Khalid Bin Abdelaziz – Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia and future King Faysal Bin Abdelaziz – Seif Ul Islam Al-Hussein, son of Imam Yahya of Yemen – Prince Mohamed Abdel-Monem, future member of the Regency Council in Egypt following the 1952 coup-d’état – Sir Miles Lampson (Lord Killearn), British Ambassador to Egypt. (Why would a British ambassador attend a supposedly Arab meeting? Go figure!).

2nd row right to left: Sheikh Fawzi El-Bakri? – Fouad Hamza, Lebanese Druze personality and Advisor to King Abdelaziz Bin Saud – Egyptian writer and first President of the University of Cairo, Lotfy Essayed Pasha standing between Prince Mohamed Abdel-Monem and Sir Miles Lampson..

3rd row right to left: Unidentified – Mohamed Ali Eltaher – Marshal Omar Fathi Pasha, Senior Aide-de-Camp to King Farouq – Unidentified – Unidentified – Palestinian nationalist and future Jordanian Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt Awni Abdelhadi – Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Pasha El-Said.

Other individuals appear in this extraordinary photograph, but they are not identified: Egyptian writer Dr. Mansour Fahmy Pasha – Refaat Saba Pasha – Egyptian academic Dr. Fouad Abaza – Egyptian Minister of Education Hilmi Issa Pasha.