Hashemite is really just an adjective for the current foreign dynasty, which is from the Hejaz on the Red Sea coast of what is now Saudi Arabia. They were defea

Hashemite is really just an adjective for the current foreign dynasty, which is from the Hejaz on the Red Sea coast of what is now Saudi Arabia. They were defeated there by the Saudis (1924-5). The British gave the elderly Sharif exile in Cyprus, and put his sons on the thrones of Jordan (Abdullah), and Syria-then-Iraq (Faisal). These events are shown briefly at the end of Lawrence of Arabia, with Alec Guinness playing Faisal.