arab language assemblage

Mohammad Kurd Ali with founders of the Arab Language Assemblage in 1919
Front row (left to right): Abdul Qader Mubarak, Saleem Anhouri, Suleiman al-Joukhadar, Mohammad Kurd Ali, Abdul Qader al-Mughrabi, Anees Sallum, unidentified. Back row (from left to right): Murshed Khater, Aref al-Nakadi, three unidentified men, Fares al-Khury, Asaad al-Hakim, Elias Qudsi, Issa Iskandar Maaluf

President of the Arab Language Assemblage Khalil Mardam Bey in 1956
From left to right: Economy Minister Khalil Kallas, the poet Rashid Khury, the poet Khalil Mardam Bey, the judge Hanna Malek, secretary-general of the premiership.