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Following a luncheon at the house of "Al-Jehad" newspaper publisher Toufic Diab in Cairo on Saturday, 21 March 1931
Seated from right to left: Wafd Party Deputy Leader Makram Ebeid Pasha – Egyptian legal expert and future member of the Regency Council following the July 23, 1952 revolution Baheyeddin Barakat Bey – Palestinian nationalist Sheikh Abdelqader Al-Muzaffar – Tunisian nationalist leader Abdelaziz El-Thaalbi – Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa El-Nahhas Pasha – Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Mufti of Palestine – Egyptian nationalist Hamad El-Bassel Pasha – Future Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmi Al-Nokrashi Pasha – Egyptian writer Wahid Bey El-Ayyoubi.
Standing from right to left: Unidentified person – the host Toufic Diab - Engineer Mohamed Hamed – Dr. Mansour Fahmy – Eltaher - the other two persons are not identified. |
With time, however, Eltaher noticed that the youth movement Bourguiba was leading brought to light new perspectives and techniques for standing up to the occupiers that were smart, well-thought out, and which reflected prior planning, not just outbursts and reactions undertaken without planning. Furthermore, Eltaher noted something new was happening in Tunisia and that leadership had started moving from the control of essentially religious leaders into the hands of a new, young and highly educated generation representing a mix of graduates of European and Arab universities, as well as a good cross-section of the Tunisian population at large. That’s when he supported the movement and its leaders, including Bourguiba.
Bourguiba’s unique vision and personality had already been noticed by Hooker Doolittle, then US Consul General in Tunisia, who was eventually instrumental in ensuring that Washington was well-informed about the important role played by Bourguiba.
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Right to left: Eltaher; Hooker Doolittle, former US Consul in Tunis; Sadoq Moqaddem,
Speaker of the Tunisian National Assembly; President Bourguiba. During the National Day Parade - Tunis 1966 |
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