The National Bloc leaders meeting at the residence of the merchant Tawfiq al-Qabbani in 1929. Standing behind the podium is Fawzi al-Ghazzi, author of Syria’s first republican constitution who was murdered by his wife later that same year. Other figures can be spotted by numbers:
- 1) Tawfiq al-Shishakli
- 2) Faris al-Khury
- 3) Fakhri al-Barudi
- 4) Najib al-Barazi
- 5) Abd al-Rahman Kayyali
- 6) Hashim al-Atasi, the Bloc President
- 7) Gibran Tweini, publisher of al-Nahhar
- 8) Husni al Barazi
- 9) Nizar Qabbani, as a little child, in his father’s home.