Syrian History

1930 - 1939

A ceremony welcoming Comte Henri de Martel, the French High Commissioner to Syria, held in Ata al-Ayyubi's palace on December 22	Habib Kahaleh (1898-1965), publisher and editor-in-chief of the mass circulation satirical weekly \"al-Mudhik al-Mubki.\"
The journalist Najib al-Rayyes (1892-1952), publisher of the mass circulating Damascus daily al-Qabas.	Riyad al-Sulh, the future prime minister of Lebanon, arrested and exiled in the remote district of Qamishli in northeastern Syri
The National Bloc leaders before their departure to Paris for independence talks with the French Government in 1936.	The National Bloc signing the Franco-Syrian Treaty with Blum in Paris in 1936.
The National Bloc signing the Franco-Syrian Treaty in Paris in 1936. Signing the document is Hashim al-Atasi.	Ex-President Mohammad Ali al-Abid, who resigned from office after the Bloc returned in victory from Paris, and died in France in
At the presidential inauguration of Hashim al-Atasi in Parliament on December 31, 1935.	President Hashim al-Atasi (1874-1960).
Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey (1893-1960).	Faris al-Khury (1877-1962), the Speaker of Parliament
At the funeral of Sharif Husayn, commander of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 and ex-King of the Hijaz, in Amman in June 1931.	At an economic forum in Beirut on March 21, 1933.
Prime Minister Lutfi al-Haffar (1891-1968).	Prime Minister Lutfi al-Haffar at the Sarail on February 23, 1939.
Lutfi al-Haffar and Gabriel Peaux during the deadlock in Franco-Syrian relations in 1939.	Shukri al-Quwatli, Comte Henri de Martel, and Jamil Mardam Bey during the late 1930s.
Prince Said al-Jazairi, giving a speech at the pulpit of the Umayyad Mosque in 1939, protesting the annexation of the Sanjak of	Protests in Damascus by women demonstrators against the annexation of the Sanjak of Alexanderetta in 1939.

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