abdul qader qaddura

Prime Minister Abdel Raouf al-Kassem delivering a speech in Damascus in 1982
Standing in the back row (from left to right): Abdullah al-Ahmar, the Assistant Secretary General of the Baath Party, Suleiman Qaddah, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Baath Party, President Hafez al-Assad, Vice-President Zuhair Masharka, Khaled Bakdash, the veteran president of the Communist Party, and Abdul Qader Qaddura, who became speaker of Parliament in 1987. From the archives of Syrianhistory.com

Syrian tenor and MP Sabah Fakhri at the swearing-in ceremony of President Bashar al-Assad in 2000
From left to right: Speaker of Parliament Abdul Qader Qaddura, President Bashar al-Assad, Sabah Fakhri. From the archives of Sabah Fakhri.

President Amin al-Hafez walking into Damascus University in 1965
From left to right: Interior Minister Nur al-Din al-Atasi, President Amin al-Hafez, veteran Baathist Abdul Qader Qaddura (the future speaker of parliament). From the archives of Syrianhistory.com