1930 - 1939

Fakhri al-Barudi (1889-1966), the National Bloc leader, in the 1930s.	The National Bloc attending a rally in the 1930s.
The monologist Salama al-Aghawany with Bader al-Din al-Shallah, a young merchant in Damascus.	The Syrian singer Asmahan (1912-1944) in the early 1930s.
The Syrian singer Asmahan in Cairo in the early 1930s.	The Syrian singer Farid al-Atrash (1915-1974) in the 1930s.
Asmahan and a friend in Egypt in the 1930s.	Asmahan and her husband, the Druze leader, Prince Hasan al-Atrash.
Asmahan on horseback in the Druze Mountain.	Asmahan and her brother, Farid al-Atrash.
Asmahan, at the apex of her career, in the early 1940s.	The singer Mary Jubran (1911-1956), who rose to fame in Syria and Egypt in the 1930s, but died out with the 1940s.
Fakhri al-Barudi and a group of Syrian artists in the 1930s. Barudi is seated fourth from left.	At the residence of Fakhri al-Barudi in Damascus on October 1, 1934.
Caricature of Abd al-Rahman Kayyali, the National Bloc leader in Aleppo.	Caricature of the leaders of Homs, Hama, and Aleppo: Hashim al-Atasi, Najib al-Barazi, and Ibrahim Hananu.
The cinema poster for the first Syrian feature film in 1934 called "Under the Sky of Damascus."	Crowds leaving a cinema in Damascus in the early 1930s.
During the filming of a Syrian movie in the 1930s. The director is Ismail Anzour.	A ceremony welcoming Comte Henri de Martel, the French High Commissioner to Syria, held in Ata al-Ayyubi's palace on December 22

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