Syrian History

1930 - 1939

Prime Minister Ata al-Ayyubi, who headed an interim government in Syria, supervising parliamentary elections, in 1936 and 1943.	Dr Rida Sa’id, the founder and president of Damascus University, in the 1940s.
Demonstrations in Damascus in 1939 against the annexation of the Sanjak of Alexanderetta to Turkey.	New 08-2005: A discussion among Syria’s leading politicians in 1932 in the orchards of Homs while attending the first General As
New 08-2005: Syrian politicians walking through the streets of Homs in 1932 to attending the general assembly of the National Bl	New 08-2005: Hashim al-Atasi, the leader of the National Bloc in Syria, on a visit to Saudi Arabia in the early 1930s.
New 08-2005: The National Bloc attending a reception in Homs in the early 1930s.	New 08-2005: Hashim al-Atasi and members of the National Bloc in Paris placing flowers on the memorial of French soldiers killed
New 08-2005: A picture taken in Paris during the Syrian-French negotiations of March-September 1936.	New 08-2005: The Syrian team at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris in 1936.
New 08-2005: The Syrian politicians at a train station in Paris in 1936.	New 08-2005: The opening of Damascus Airport on December 9, 1938.
The Druze leader Sultan al-Atrash being embraced by Dr Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar in 1937.	A group of Syrian industrialists at the Paris International Fair in 1938.
“Ghrawi Chocolate,” a leading Syrian product, at the Paris International Fair of 1931.	A “first prize award” given at an international fair in Rome in 1939 to Sadiq Ghrawi, a Syrian industrialist and founder of Ghra
French officers watching a horse-race in Damascus during the years of the French Mandate in 1931.	New 10-2006: Hashim al-Atasi, the president of the National Bloc, leaving government headquarters after high-level talks with Pr
Abdul-Rahman Shahbandar addressing crowds in Damascus upon his return from 11-years of exile, in 1937.	A group of Syrian and French judges in the early 1930s

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