Mansur al-Atrash
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Mansur al-Atrash was a Syrian politician and journalist. Together with fellow university students, Atrash became a founding member of the Ba'ath Party and its Syrian regional branch in 1947. During th
Portrait of Mansur al-Atrash, 1963–1966
Hasan Mraywed and Mansour al-Atrash at the American University of Beirut in the 1940s
Founders of the Baath Party during its formation in Damascus - April 1947
Baath MPs Salah al-Bitar and Mansour al-Atrash voting in Parliament - 1955
Sultan al-Atrash
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Sultan al-Atrash was a Syrian nationalist revolutionary who led the Great Syrian Revolt against the French colonial administration in Syria. One of the most influential figures in Syrian and Druze his
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…anti-government activist and was imprisoned twice, only to be released in an unsuccessful attempt by Shishakli to gain the support of Atrash's father, Sultan. In the year Shishakli was overthrown, Atrash was elected to parliament and turned down an offer to serve in Said al-Ghazzi's government. During the…
Al-Atrash in the Arabian desert after the Syrian revolt
Portrait of Sultan al-Atrash
Suwayda celebration for Sultan's and the other rebels' return from exile in 1937
Hilal al-Atrash, Sultan's kinsman and the rebellious sheikh of Rasas, during a ceremony celebrating the release of Syrian rebels