1920 - 1929

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

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General Sarrail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dr Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, the prime leader of the nationalist movement in the 1920s.

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