Salma Mardam Bey

Salma Mardam Bey (Arabic: سلمى مردم بك‎ Turkish: Selma Mardam Bey) is a Syrian writer and historian.

Early life and education

Mardam Bey was born in Syria into a family of Turkish origin.[1] Her father, Jamil Mardam Bey, was the former Syrian Prime Minister. She studied in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, 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, Jamil Mardam Bey, 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 Arabic, entitled "Awrak Jamil Mardam Bey".[2]

References
  1. Moubayed, Sami M. (2000), Damascus between democracy and dictatorship, University Press of America, p. xxiv, ISBN 0761817441
  2. Moubayed, Sami M. (2006), Steel & Silk: Men and Women who Shaped Syria 1900-2000, Cune Press, p. 294, ISBN 1885942400
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