Preceded by Muhammad Ashawi Preceded by Hassan Mraywed Succeeded by Muhammad Ashawi Role Politician | Name Ibrahim Makhous Succeeded by Mahmoud Zuabi Party Ba'ath Party | |
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Similar People Salah al‑Din al‑Bitar, Saddam Hussein, Michel Aflaq | ||
Ibrahim Makhous (Arabic: ابراهيم ماخوس; 1925 – 10 September 2013) was a 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.
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. 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.
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. 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.