1930 - 1939

Dr Rida Sa’id, the founder and president of Damascus University, in the 1940s.

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New 10-2006: Hashim al-Atasi, the president of the National Bloc, leaving government headquarters after high-level talks with Pr

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New 08-2005: The Syrian politicians at a train station in Paris in 1936.

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New 08-2005: A discussion among Syria’s leading politicians in 1932 in the orchards of Homs while attending the first General As

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The Druze leader Sultan al-Atrash being embraced by Dr Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar in 1937.

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New 08-2005: Hashim al-Atasi, the leader of the National Bloc in Syria, on a visit to Saudi Arabia in the early 1930s.

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New 08-2005: The National Bloc in Damascus before heading to Paris for independence talks with French Prime Minister Leon Blum.

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“Ghrawi Chocolate,” a leading Syrian product, at the Paris International Fair of 1931.

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New 08-2005: Hashim al-Atasi and members of the National Bloc in Paris placing flowers on the memorial of French soldiers killed

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Prime Minister Ata al-Ayyubi, who headed an interim government in Syria, supervising parliamentary elections, in 1936 and 1943.

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