"So far I found that Al Harthiyah is an area of Bagdad:
http://wikimapia.org/5371386/Al-Harthiyah
Could it be one of many English hunts abroad?"
Irrelebvant to the button, but Kipling published "Little Foxes" in 1909, a very funny story of the introduction of foix hunting to the Sudan by its British governor, who uses bribes to persuade the locals to train his 'ho-wends' and preserve the local foxes for his emi-annual visits. Hunts were common in India - jackals instead of foxes, I think - and undoubtedly other parts of the vast Empire east of Suez.