1946 - 1954

New 10-2006: Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli, out-of-office and living in exile in Egypt, attending an official function with

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President Hashim al-Atasi with Prime Minister Khalid al-Azm in Homs in 1950, meeting with the city’s Muslim leaders.

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Quotes by President Shukri al-Quwatli filling the streets of Damascus on Syria’s first Independence Day, April 17, 1946.

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Hanna Malek (right), the secretary-general of the Premiership, meeting the industrialist Sadiq Ghrawi in 1952.

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New 10-2006: Syrian Ambassador Najib al-Armanazi in Cairo in 1952 with Colonel Gamal Abdul-Nasser, the new strongman of Egypt.

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Syrian Prime Minister Khalid al-Azm in 1950.

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General Fawzi Selu, the head of state in Syria, at the opening of a conference for Arab Chambers of Commerce and Industry, held

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President Shukri al-Quwatli with a group of dignitaries at the Presidential Palace in Syria, shortly after independence in 1946.

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A rare picture of General Sami al-Hinnawi, the Chief-of-Staff of the Syrian Army who toppled and killed President Husni al-Za’im

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Syria’s ex-President Adib al-Shishakli at his exile in Switzerland in the late 1950s.

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