Syrian History

1954 - 1958

President Shukri al-Quwatli at an annual iftar held in 1956 for the poor inhabitants of Damascus during the month of Ramadan.

President Shukri al-Quwatli at the graduation of cadets from the Homs Military Academy in 1956.

President Shukri al-Quwatli with girl scouts in Aleppo in November 1955.

President Shukri al-Quwatli after being re-elected to office in 1955 receiving a delegation from the Maronite Patriarch of Leban

President Shukri al-Quwatli on a state visit to India in December 1957

Anwar al-Sadat, the president of the Egyptian Parliament, at the Orient Club in Damascus in 1957

President Shukri al-Quwatli at the Women’s Union Conference in Damascus, Syria.

A meeting at the Syrian Parliament in mid-1950s, packed with People’s Party founders.

President Shukri al-Quwatli, sitting in the middle of the table, dining with the Damascus Chamber of Industry and Commerce in th

A diner held by Prime Minister Sabri al-Asali in the mid-1950s.

Syrian merchants at a conference of Arab Chambers of Commerce held in Cairo in the 1950s.

The leaders of the People’s Party in the mid-1950s.

New 10-2006: Prime Minister Said al-Ghazzi with a group of notables and visitors at his office in Damascus in 1956.

President Shukri al-Quwatli laying the founding stone of the Central Bank of Syria in June 1956.

New 10-2006: Dag Hammarskjöld, the secretary-general of the United Nations, on a visit to the office of Syrian Prime Minister Sa

President Shukri al-Quwatli delivering a speech at Damascus University in December 1955.

The Syrian National Basketball Team at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957.

Merchants from the Damascus Chamber of Commerce on a sea trip to Egypt in 1957.

President Shukri al-Quwatli receiving a medal from the Arab Lawyer’s Union in 1957.

President Shukri al-Quwatli and the First Lady of Syria with the Indian President Rajendera Prassad in December 1957.

The military court that convicted members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) in the murder of Syria’s deputy Chief-of

Hasnaa Wafaii, the three-time Beauty Queen of Syria, pictured in 1957.

President Shukri al-Quwatli parading through Damascus with his Chief-of-Staff Afif al-Bizreh in 1957.

Hayfa Ashrafiyya, the Summer Beauty Queen of Syria in 1957, who won the title at the age of 18.

President Shukri al-Quwatli at his residence in Damascus in 1957 consulting with Chief-of-Staff Afif al-Bizreh and Fakhir al-Kay

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