Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, a leader of the revolt, was a member of the Palestine Arab Party who had served as its Secretary-General and had become editor-in-chief of the party's paper "Al-Liwa’" as well as of other newspapers, including "Al-Jami’a Al-Islamiyya". In 1938, Abd al-Qadir was exiled and in 1939 fled to Iraq where he took part in the Rashid Ali al-Gaylani coup.