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Re:Asmahan

Greetings Diaa! Page 23 in Asmahan's Secrets just continues the list of sources. It lists four sources to be exact. --Al Ameer son (talk) 22:52, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Wrong page numbers, it's actually 24-26. Anyhow, the source says

Our narrative of the singer with a noble past begins in a castle in Dimerji, Anatolia, with a commanding view of the terrain below. A horseman rode furiously down the road and slowed as he approached the gate. Guards challenged him, but he insisted on speaking to the family's father, Fahd al-Atrash, or his wife. 'The Greeks are advancing,' he warned them. 'Within a day, or two at most, they will arrive. You must depart immediately.'

His wife 'Alia was pregnant, very pregnant. A sudden journey could force her into premature labr. Despite her pregnancy, Fahd and 'Alia decided to bundle up their children and travel with all haste to Izmir...

I could continue on if you like. Anyway, before all that is stated in the book, the author explains that the Ottoman government had lost control of Greece and some parts of the Balkans and "the Greeks and Italians pressed the Allies to let them claim their fair share of the Anatolian peninsula as well, when that secret Sykes-Picot agreement was revealed to the world." --Al Ameer son (talk) 23:20, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

On your note in the article about the divorce, page 53 is unavailable for me to read. All that is shown is: "Fahd threatened 'Alia that if she did not return, she was divorced; he would divorce her thrice, and so irrevocably. Fu'ad disliked the pseudonym he hid..." --Al Ameer son (talk) 23:31, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

There's nothing in the book that explicitly says Fahd al-Atrash was a member of the CUP, however, on page 32, it says that "Fahd had been sent to Istanbul for his schooling, and pursued a career in the Ottoman and subsequently CUP governments." I will try to make this all clear in the article. --Al Ameer son (talk) 23:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)