Barjas Al-Hadid is a pillar of the east bank establishment whose tribal family have offered the ruling Hashemite royal family indefatigable loyalty since Prince Abdullah arrived in the city of Ma'an in 1921 to claim Transjordan for the Hashemites. 'King Hussein was born in 1935' relates Barjas, "for the first 3 months of his life he had a wet nurse who was a Hadid. The wet nurse; named Dela Al-Hadid, is the mother to Hmoud Hamad Al-Hadid and the Grandmother to Colonel Maher Hmoud Al-Hadid. When my Father Shaher died in 1947, when i was only nine years old, King Abdullah Insisted that he be buried in the royal family's cemetery, above the Raghadan palace in Amman". The Hadid tribal history and hence Barjas' family history is interwoven with the history of Jordan. "We took part in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, with Prince Faisal, and we fought against the French in Syria" says Barjas with Pride. "We fought at the battle of Maisaloun, my father Shaher and his cousin Minwer and many from our tribe were there".