Ibrahim Makhous

Ibrahim Makhous
Peasants' Bureau of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office
March 1968  13 November 1970
Preceded by Muhammad Ashawi
Succeeded by Mahmoud Zuabi
Ministry 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
Religion Alawite

Ibrahim Makhous (Arabic: ابراهيم ماخوس; 1925 – 10 September 2013) was an Syria Regional Branch politician who sat on the Regional Command from 1966 to 1970. He served as foreign minister during Salah Jadid's rule.

After Hafez al-Assad's seizure of power, Makhous established the Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party. Makhous died in 2013, at the age of 88.[1]

Early life

Ibrahim Makhus was born to a religious and rural Alawite family from the village of Makhus—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 massive 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, Ibrahim worked with his father's association, traveling frequently 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. During the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954, he served as a volunteer physician.[2]

References

  1. "L'Expression - Le Quotidien - L'opposant syrien Ibrahim Makhous tire sa révérence". Lexpressiondz.com. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  2. 1 2 Batatu, p. 163.
  3. 1 2 Batatu, p. 169.
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