Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 3 (vi)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah. The documents are numbered (Nos. 710-718) and comprise mainly official papers and pages from Al-Azmah's notes, some relating to the Council of Ministers held in January 1949 and others dated September 1948, as well as documents dealing with relations between France and Syria.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 3 (vii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah. The documents are numbered (Nos. 719-740) and comprise mainly official papers and pages from Al-Azmah's notes, including a document addressed to soldiers of the Syrian army, a document issued by the head of Baniyas police, a diagram showing the organisational structure of the Security Directorate, and several documents on headed notepaper from the General Secretariat of the Republic of Syria.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 3 (viii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 759-764, comprising a communication from the director of a refugee foundation along with accompanying reports.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 3 (x)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 826-838, including a letter from the Minister of Defence to Husni al-Za'im regarding funds for an arms deal, dated July 1949, an anonymous letter relating to this deal, a communication from an artillery commander (August 1949), other correspondence and official documents from the Syrian Ministry of Defence.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (i)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 839-853, including draft legislation relating to publications and the press, the text of the legislative decree and a long letter to Adil Al-Azmah from the press syndicate.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (ii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 854-872, including legal documentation for the Syrian election of 1949, a booklet on the internal system of the Syrian parliament and documents from the Ministry of the Interior.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (iii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 873-887, including a handwritten report on the possibility of a coup, anonymous handwritten notes on a union with Iraq and documents from the Ministry of the Interior
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (iv)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 888-922, including planning and population notes, and two copies of a memorandum from the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Syrian National Construction Company to the Minister of State regarding the plans for building the new city of Damascus, complete with an aerial diagram showing the proposed layout of the city.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (v)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 923-927, comprising mainly copies of handwritten notes and figures, including daily work schedules.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (vi)
  Two sets of photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 928 and 929, comprising the text of the constitution proposed by Hosni Al-Zaim, entitled 'The draft of the Syrian constitution prepared by the committee formed under Decree No. 50 issued in April 1949'
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (vii)
  Two sets of photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 930-939, including legal decrees, Ministry of Public Works projects, the draft text of a law on administrative organisations, and a document from the Ministry of the Interior.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 4 (viii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 940-967, including a copy of a memorandum from two members of the State Council, a copy of a printed booklet containing an Election statement from the National Party candidate, a letter from King Abdullah to Syrian Prime Minister Hashim al-Atassi, handwritten notes from Adil Al-Azmah's notebook and an undated letter written on headed notepaper from the Semiramis Hotel in Cairo, signed 'Asaad' [possibly journalist Asaad Dagher?]
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (i)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 968-979, including some documents relating to the trade union organisation, the Fédération Générale des Syndicats Ouvriers en Syrie, and a 1949 letter from the former Governor of Damascus, Emir Said abd-el-Kader.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (ii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 980-1023, relating to the 11th Session of the League of Arab States, held in Cairo in October 1949 and chaired by Syria. Papers contain records of various meetings, agreements, lists of member delegates etc, and there is also an additional buff folder inside containing a copy of a General Secretariat League Budget for 1950.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (iii)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 1024-1027, including a draft basic law for a national party in Syria and notes on the internal party system.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (iv)
  Photocopied pages from the papers of Adil Al-Azmah, numbered 1028-1042, including official documents and copies of several published booklets, each contained in a separate slim card folder. These include a table of handwritten notes headed 'Aspirations', a programme for a reception party with musical acts and performances, a copy of the Official Gazette for September 1949, an issue of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Hawadis (published in Aleppo, December 1949), a report on resources by Syrian Prime Minister Khalid al-Azm (1946), two booklets about Aleppo - one published by the city's Islamic Charitable Association - and parliamentary documents.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (v)
  Adil Al-Azmah papers
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (vi)
  Adil Al-Azmah papers
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 5 (vii)
  Adil Al-Azmah papers
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 6 (i)
  Photocopied pages from Arabic newspapers - including Al-Hayat, Al-Hadaf and many others - reporting the death of Adil Al-Azmah in 1952.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 6 (ii)
  Photocopies of documents and letters relating to the death of Adil Al-Azmah in 1952, including personal letters sent to Nabih Al-Azmah from contacts in Palestine, Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 6 (iii)
  Photocopies of telegrams, mostly from Syria and Lebanon, sent during 1952 following the death of Adil Al-Azmah.
• The Papers of Adil Al-Azmah. Box 6 (iv)
  Index to Adil Al-Azmah papers
• The Papers of Nabih Al-Azmah. Box 10 (i)
  Photocopied pages from the Syrian papers of Nabih Al-Azmah, individually numbered from 640 to 714, including letters from correspondents such as Abdul Latif Younis, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, the Secretary General of the Arab League, Syrian telegrams, forms and other documents.
• The Papers of Nabih Al-Azmah. Box 10 (ii)
  Photocopied pages from the Syrian papers of Nabih Al-Azmah, individually numbered from 715 to 776, including Rules of Procedure regarding entitlement of Syrians etc, several National Party documents, including party policy statements and papers on their Third General Conference, with annotations and comments by Nabih Al-Azmah, names of committee members, letters, Syrian telegrams, forms and other documents.