Standing behind the podium is Fawzi al-Ghazzi, author of Syria’s first republican constitution who was murdered by his wife later that same year. Other figures can be spotted by numbers:
1) Tawfiq al-Shishakli
2) Faris al-Khury
3) Fakhri al-Barudi
4) Najib al-Barazi
5) Abdul Rahman Kayyali
6) Hashem al-Atasi, the Bloc President
7) Gibran Tweini, publisher of al-Nahhar
8) Husni al Barazi
9) Nizar Qabbani, as a little child, in his father’s home.