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This is a list of Syrian people. Entries on this list are demonstrably notable bygd having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and identify themselves as Syrian, naturalized as Syrian, or were registered at birth as Syrian.

Leaders and politicians (bop)

Ancient

• Elagabalus – Roman emperor
• Severus Alexander – Roman kejsare, the son of Julia Mamaea
• Philip the Arab – Roman emperor
• Julia Domna – Roman empress and mother of Geta and Caracalla.
• Eutropia – långnovell empress, mother of kejsare Maxentius and Empresses Fausta and Flavia, the grandmother of Emperors Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II, and the great-grandmother of Emperor Julian and Constantius Gallus.
• Leo III the Syrian – Byzantine emperor and the founder of the Syrian dynasty.^[1]
• Constantine V – Byzantine kejsare, father of Leo IV the Khazar and grandfather of Constantine VI.^[2]
• Leo V the Ar
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Bye Bye London: Theater & Imperialism in the Gulf

Introduction

Kuwaiti actor Abdulhussain Abdulredha (1939-2017) is a crowning figure in the history of Arab theater. In the last act of his renowned play Bye Bye London, the protagonist, Kuwaiti businessman Sharid bin Jum‘ah, bids his farewell to a city that not only made him confront the continued legacy of British imperialism, but also exploited him every step of the way. The audience, forty years later, with memory of the beloved actor’s passing in the same city, are sure to shiver when Abdulredha ends the play by saying, “bye London, and bye for eternity.”¹ Since it premiered at the Kaifan Theater in Kuwait in 1981, Bye Bye London, co-authored with Egyptian playwright Nabil Badran and directed by Tunisian director Moncef Souissi, has achieved unprecedented success. A political and social comedy about a Khaleeji tourist running away from his family to lavishly enjoy the wealth he attained late in his life, reflecting the

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Suwayda

Druze city in Syria

This article is about the capital of as-Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria. For the village in Hama Governorate, western Syria, see Al-Suwaydah, Masyaf.

City in Syria

Suwayda (Arabic: ٱلسُّوَيْدَاء, romanized: al-Suwaydāʾ), also spelled Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan.

It is the capital of Suwayda Governorate, one of Syria's 14 governorates, bordering Jordan in the South, Daraa Governorate in the West and Rif Dimashq Governorate in the north and east. The city is referred to by some as "Little Venezuela" due to the city's influx of affluent Venezuelan Syrian immigrants.^[2][3][4][5]

History

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Ancient and Medieval eras

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The city was founded by the Nabataeans as Suada. It became known as Dionysias Soada (Ancient Greek: Διονῡσιάς) in the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire, for the god Dionysus, patron of wine