Ibrahim Makhous
| Ibrahim Makhous | |
|---|---|
| Peasants' Bureau of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
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In office March 1968 – 13 November 1970 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Ashawi |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Zuabi |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 1 March 1966 – 29 October 1968 | |
| Preceded by | Salah al-Din al-Bitar |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Ashawi |
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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 | |
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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]