Syrian History

1920 - 1929

Subhi al-Omari, the Syrian officer who helped create the Iraqi Army with King Faysal in 1922.

The Druze leader Sultan al-Atrash leading his armies in the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927 against the French Mandate.

French soldiers celebrating the Jeanne d’Arc Festival in Damascus, held annually by the French since they came to Syria in 1920.

General Sarrail.

Prime Minister Taj al-Din al-Hasani inspecting the Syrian Police in 1929.

Dr Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar during the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927.

Syrian police exercising during the inspection of Hasani in 1929.

Prime Minister Jamil al-Ulshi in September 1920.

The Syrian Police Force in 1929.

A very rare picture of Shukri al-Quwatli in the 1920s.

A fund-raising diner held by the Syrian expatriate community in Detroit, the USA, in 1929.

A letter from Education Minister Mohammad Kurd Ali to Ahmad Izzat al-Ustaz.

General Maurice Sarail, the French High Commissioner who bombed Damascus in 1925.

Medical students at Damascus University in the 1920s.

The French High Commissioner Henri Gouraud with his immediate successor General Maxime Weygand.

New 08-2005: Mrs Willian Seabrook, the wife of an American newspaper correspondent stationed in Syria and writing about the Druz

The funeral of Fawzi al-Ghazzi, author of Syria's first republican constitution and a co-founder of the National Bloc.

Prime Minister Taj al-Din al-Hasani with members of his government in 1928.

The funeral of the National Bloc leader Fawzi al-Ghazzi, author of Syria’s first republican constitution.

The bodies of three Syrian rebels hanged in Marjeh Square during the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1928.

The funeral of the National Bloc leader Fawzi al-Ghazzi in 1929 at the Marjeh Square in Damascus.

The courtyard of the Azm Palace, destroyed by French bombs during the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925.

A rare photograph of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash at 97, commander of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927.

Citizens killed in Damascus during the French air raid on October 18, 1925.

The National Bloc leaders meeting at the residence of the merchant Tawfiq al-Qabbani in 1929.

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