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Also Known As Michel Aflak
Born 1910 • Damascus • Ottoman Empire
Died June 23, 1989 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Founder Baʿath Party
Political Affiliation Baʿath Party
Bardesanes
Syrian scholar
Salah al-Din Bitar
Syrian politician
Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad
president of Syria
Akram al-Hawrani
Syrian politician
Anṭūn Saʿādah
Syrian politician
Shukri al-Quwatli.
Shukri al-Quwatli
president of Syria
Sayf al-Dawlah
Ḥamdānid ruler
Khalid Bakdash
Syrian politician
Nizār Qabbānī
Syrian poet and diplomat
Adib al-Shishakli
Syrian military officer
Hāshim al-ʿAtāsī
president of Syria
ʿUmar Abū Rīshah
Syrian poet and diplomat
Pompey
Pompey the Great
Roman statesman
Hadrian
Hadrian
Roman emperor
Leading a revolutionary offensive
Ahmed al-Sharaa
president of interim government of Syria
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
Faisal I
Faisal I
king of Iraq
Gabinius, bronze bust; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Aulus Gabinius
Roman politician
Amin al-Husseini
Amin al-Husseini
Arab nationalist
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Roman statesman