From right to left: Egyptian children books author Kamel Kilani – Eltaher – Ali Abdelkarim, the new Sultan of Lahj (now part of Yemen) – Syrian writer and educator Dr. Mamdouh Haqqi – Abderrahman El-Banna, brother of Sheikh Hassan El-Banna.
The Sultan, whose country, Lahj, and the whole of southern Yemen were British Protectorates at that time, was on his way to London to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
