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  1. Arab nationalist leader during World War I
  2. and king of Iraq 1921-33. Instrumental in
  3. liberating the Near East from Ottoman
  4. control, he was declared king of Syria in
  5. 1918 but deposed by the French in 1920. The
  6. British then installed him as king in Iraq,
  7. where he continued to foster pan-Arabism.
  8.