Bloudan Conference of 1937

Front row from left to right: Unknown delegate, Ex-minister Mohammed Alluba Pasha of Egypt, Palestinian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Ali Eltaher, Syrian nationalist Ihsan al-Jabiri, future Lebanese prime minister Riad al-Solh, Ali Obeid of Syria, Sa'id al-Hajj Thabet of Iraq, and Hamad Sa'b of Lebanon; second row: Mufti Sheikh Adib El Khaldi (Mufti Jenin).

The Bloudan Conference of 1937 (Arabic transliteration: al-Mu'tamar al-'Arabi al-Qawmi fi Bludan) was the first pan-Arab summit held in Bloudan, Syria on 8 September 1937. The second Bloudan conference was held nine years later in 1946.

It was called by the Arab Higher Committee in response to the Peel Commission which recommended the partition of Palestine, then under British control, into Arab and Jewish states.[1] The Peel Commission's recommendations were rejected by the participating delegates while the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine was ongoing against the British authorities who supported and increased Jewish immigration in Palestine. The Bloudan Conference held historical significance for being an early display of collective Arab concern regarding the Zionist movement.[2]

  1. ^ Mattar, p.104.
  2. ^ Commins, p.72.