Al-Atrash
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The al-Atrash, also known as Bani al-Atrash, is a Druze clan based in Jabal Hauran in southwestern Syria. The family's name al-atrash is Arabic for "the deaf" and derives from one the family's deaf pa
Shibli al-Atrash in Ira, Syria, October 1895
Farid al-Atrash
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Farid al-Atrash, also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor. Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine with his mother and sibling
Al-Atrash
…in the 1920s. Fleeing the French occupation of Syria, 'Alia al-Mundhir al-Atrash, from the House of Sultan al-Atrash, and her three children, Fuad, Farid, and Amal al-Atrash (later known as Asmahan) were sponsored by Egypt's prime minister Saad Zaghloul and later became naturalized citizens. After…
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Al-Atrash shaking hands with Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, February 1955
Al-Atrash and Salah Zulfikar during a sports event in Cairo, 1961