Salma Mardam Bey ( ) is a

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

n writer and historian.

Early life and education

Mardam Bey was born in

into a family of Turkish origin. Her father,

Jamil Mardam Bey Jamil Mardam Bey (; ; 1895–1960), was a Syrian politician. He was born in Damascus to a prominent aristocratic family of Turkish origins. He is a descendant of the Ottoman general, statesman and Grand Vizier Lala Mustafa Pasha and the penulti ...

, was the former Syrian Prime Minister. She studied in egypt during her primary schooling years, where she studied at the English Girls School (EGC) during 1950’s in Alexandria, Egypt.She studied in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the

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, where her thesis was entitled "''Syria, 1939-45, as depicted by the Mardam Bey papers''".

Publications

She is renowned for publishing the memoirs of her father,

, dating from 1939 to 1945. Her first book was initially written in French entitled, ''"La Syrie et la France: Bilan d'une equivoque, 1939-1945"'' (1994), and then translated into English entitled, "''Syria's Quest for Independence, 1939-1945''" (1997). The book has also been translated into

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, entitled "''Awrak Jamil Mardam Bey"''.

References

Syrian people of Turkish descent 20th-century Syrian historians 21st-century Syrian historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Mardam-Bey family {{Syria-historian-stub https://www.fluidr.com/photos/cam37/sets/72157603570316635