The National Bloc was a Syrian political party that emerged to fight for Syrian independence during the French Mandate of Syria

French Mandate of Syria

Officially the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...

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The party was created after a national conference in 1928, by Ibrahim Hananu

Ibrahim Hananu

Ibrahim Hananu or Ibrahim Hanano , one of the more charismatic and intriguing figures to emerge from the morass of war in post-1918 Aleppo, was an Constantinople-educated member of a notable landholding family of Kurdish origin in northern Syria. He was born in Kafr Takharim, a fertile...

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It was not a structured party but rather a coalition of parties hostile to the French presence in Syria. The Bloc was led by notable conservatives; land owners, tradesmen, lawyers, etc. This coalition gathered the fifty most rich and powerful families of Syria.

The political involvement of these notable people in the struggle for independence is reminiscent of the political struggle carried out in their youth against the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

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The National Bloc had no precise ideology, nor a social and economic agenda.
The main objective which drove the movement forward was to return Syria's independence through diplomatic and non-violent actions.
The party was dissolved in 1946.