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The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East covers the same region, but may provide different results since it is focused on a specific period.And indeed, we have a few more potential matches:

"Britain took virtual control of Egypt's finances and foreign affairs, and the real ruler was Britain's consul general. In response, a national movement emerged with the objective ofachieving Egypt's independence. The struggle of Mustafa KAMIL, Muhammad FARID, and Sa'd ZAGHLUL achieved 1922. On 28 February, Britain's declaration terminated theprotectorate (declared in October 1914), proclaimed Egypt a sovereign, independent kingdom, and reserved four issues for future negotiations: imperial communication, defense, minorities, andthe Sudan. On 15 March 1922, Ahmad FU'AD was proclaimed king; a constitution was issued on 9 April 1923."
Mustafa Kamil, Muhammad Farid, Sa’d Zaghlul and Amhad Fu’ad. Let's try a political dictionary we found.

Political dictionary

A political dictionary offers an alphabetical listing of a variety of terms including proper names and the names ofevents related to the political history of a region. It is an invaluable resource for one researching a region of the world with which they areunfamiliar.

Our political dictionary focuses on the region at hand during the period we are focusing on: Political Dictionary of theMiddle East in the 20th Century . Under the listing for Egypt we find a few more candidates:

"On the eve of World War I, E. was, in international law, part of the Ottoman Empire, but actually ruled bythe British. On 18 Dec. 1914, one month after war had been declared, Britain severed the formal link between E. and the Ottoman Empire and declared E. a British Protectorate. E. waspromised that Britain would guide her toward self-rule and that the capitulationist would be abrogated at the end of the war. At the same time the British deposed the Khedive 'AbbasHilmi and replaced him with his uncle, Hussein Kamel, giving him the title of Sultan (he died in 1917 and was succeeded by his brother, Ahmad Fu'ad.)
‘Abbas Hilmi and Hussein Kamel.

Our regional encyclopedias and dictionaries are also good for identifying the role individuals played in its history, as you can see.

Biography of Ahmad Urabi
Biography of Sa'd Zaghlul
But we are provided with no pictures. At this point we have gathered enough information to move on to the next resource; we have names, but still nofaces to match them to.

Hunting for the face with the name

Looking for an image, whether a photograph or a sketch or anything really, there is one online resource that istough to beat: the Google image database. When you get to the homepage, just enter the full name of the person you would liketo see an image of and Google will search through millions of images for a match.

Let's try a few of our names to see what faces come up. If you would like to take a look at our portrait for comparison click here, Face 1 . Our search produces the following images for the names we've identified:

Mustafa Kamil at MUZonline
Mohammad Farid at SIS, the Egyptian State Information Service ,
Sa'd Zaghlul at Al-Ahram
Amhad Fu’ad at genealogia
'Abbas Hilmi at FirstWorldWar.com
and Hussein Kamel at l'Egypte d'Antan .

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Source:  OpenStax, Understanding material culture: deciphering the imagery of the "souvenir of egypt". OpenStax CNX. Oct 08, 2006 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10301/1.7
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