Al-Mushrifah المشرفة Al-Mishirfeh
Village
1936 aerial view of Al-Mushrifah
Al-Mushrifah Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°50′04″N 36°51′03″E / 34.834479°N 36.850971°E / 34.834479; 36.850971
Country	Syria
Governorate	Homs
District	Homs
Subdistrict	Ayn al-Niser
Population  (2004)
• Total	14,868
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

Al-Mushrifah (Arabic: المشرفة, also spelled al-Mishirfeh, el-Mishrife or Musharrfeh) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located northeast of Homs, with a population of 14,868 in 2004. Nearby localities include Ayn al-Niser, Umm al-Amad and al-Mukharram to the east, and Talbiseh, al-Ghantu and Teir Maalah to the west. Outside the modern town is Tell el-Mishrife, the site of the ancient city-state of Qatna. It has a religiously mixed population of Sunni Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The village contains several mosques and two churches.^[1]

In the 1950s, under the influence of the Syrian Communist Party, some of the peasants of al-Mushrifah rose against their landlord by seizing his harvest.^[2]

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