Ibrahim Makhūs or Ibrahim Makhous or Brahim Makhous and Arabic: إبراهيم ماخوس (1925 – 10 September 2013) was a Syrian Syrian Baathist politician who sat on the Regional Command from 1966 to 1970. He served as foreign minister during Salah Jadid's rule.
Ibrahim Makhūs | |
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 Ibrahim Makhous second from the right, Paris 1967 | |
| Peasants' Bureau of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
| In office March 1968 – 13 November 1970 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Ashawi |
| Succeeded by | Mahmūd Zuʿbi |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 1 March 1966 – 29 October 1968 | |
| Preceded by | Salah al-Din al-Bitar |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Ashawi |
| In office 22 September 1965 – 21 December 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Hassan Mraywed |
| Succeeded by | Salah al-Din al-Bitar |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
| In office 27 March 1966 – 13 November 1970 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1925 Damascus, French Mandate of Syria |
| Died | 10 September 2013 (aged 88) Algiers, Algeria |
| Political party | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
| Other political affiliations | Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party |
| Alma mater | Damascus University |
After Hafiz al-Asad's seizure of power, Makhous established the Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party. Makhūs died in 2013, at the age of 88.[1]
Early life
editIbrahim Makhūs was born to a religious and rural Alawite family from the village of Makhūs—the family's namesake—between Latakia and Antioch.[2] His father was a religious shaykh who also worked as a landless cultivator, although he eventually came to own 100 dunams of agricultural land. He served as the arbiter of local disputes and founded a large charitable organization in the Syrian coastal region called "al-Jam'iyyah al-Khayriyyah". It grew to set up a presence in some seventy villages and established one of the first co-ed secondary school in the area.[3]
From a young age, Makhūs worked with his father's association, frequently traveling throughout Latakia's hinterland where he became intimately aware of the peasantry's hardships.[3] While a student, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a volunteer for the Arab forces. [citation needed]
During the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954, he served as a volunteer physician.[2]
References
edit- ^ "L'Expression - Le Quotidien - L'opposant syrien Ibrahim Makhous tire sa révérence". Lexpressiondz.com. Archived from the original on 2013-09-15. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ a b Batatu, p. 163.
- ^ a b Batatu, p. 169.