Steel & Silk: Men and Women who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 - Sami M. Moubayed - Google Books

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Consists of profiles of 341 men and women. Syria has led the Arab World in many ways for the past 100 years. It was the headquarters of the Arab nationalist movement in the 1910s and leader of women's emancipation in the 1920s. It was among the first Arab…