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