aleppo

President Shukri al-Quwatli addressing the masses in Aleppo in 1944
Standing next to the President (fourth from right) is Prime Minister Saadallah al-Jabiri.

King Faisal on a white horse attending a military parade in Aleppo in June 1920
The king is parading in front of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo

Aleppo Governor Ihsan al-Sharif in 1944
Sharif is standing in white suite in the middle of the photo, surrounded by two guards.

President Shukri al-Quwatli giving a speech in Aleppo in 1947
President Shukri al-Quwatli giving a speech in Aleppo. Standing next to him is Emir Mustapha al-Shihabi, the Governor of Aleppo.

Commemorating the death of Saadallah al-Jabiri in 1948, one year after his death, in Aleppo
The photo was taken during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. Standing behind the microphone is Interior Minister Lutfi al-Haffar. Standing near him in tarboosh is Abdul Rahman Kayyali, president of the National Party, and sitting behind the desk is Mikhael Ilyan of the National Party.

President Adib al-Shishakli with Crown Prince Saud of Saudi Arabia in Aleppo in 1953
Left to right: General Shishakli - Crown Prince Saud - General Wadih al-Muqabari of the Syrian Air Force

President Shukri al-Quwatli visiting the factory of Aleppo industrialist Sami Saem al-Daher in 1945
From left to right: Unknown, Sami Saem al-Daher, President Quwatli, Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey

The Great Synagogue of Aleppo, known as al-Kanisa al-Kabira
It is in the old Jewish quarter of Bahsita. Source: www.mideastimage.com

President Gamal Abdul Nasser and Yugoslavian President Josip Tito in Aleppo in 1959
From left to right: United Arab Republic Vice President Akram al-Hawrani, the Aleppo industrialist Sami Saem al-Daher, director of Egyptian Intelligence Salah Nasr, President Josip Tito, his wife Jovanka Broz, President Gamal Abdul Nasser. The photo was taken in the home of Sami Saeb al-Daher, who was nationalized by President Nasser and left in bankrupcy in 1960

Rushdi al-Kikhya, one of the founders of the People's Party of Aleppo, pictured in 1932
At the time, Kikhiya was a member of the National Bloc. He resigned in 1939 proteting annexation of the Sanjak of Alexanderetta. In 1947, he founded the People's Party in Aleppo with his colleague Nazem al-Qudsi and in 1949, served briefly as Speaker of Parliament and one of the co-founders of the Constitution of 1950. He was offered the presidency in 1961 but declined, saying that he will not return to government office so long as officers are meddling the political affairs of Syria.

A thank-you letter from the doctors of Aleppo to President Adib al-Shisahkli, thanking him for medical reforms in the Syrian Constitution
From the archives of Jamil Murad