Michel Aflaq
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Job / Known for: Founder of Ba'athism
Left traces: Ba'ath Party
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Date: 1910-01-09
Location: SY Damascus
Died
Date: 1989-06-23 (aged 79)
Resting place: FR Baghdad
Death Cause: Brain cancer
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Parent(s): Fares Aflaq and Mary Ajami
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ميشيل عفلق

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One Arab nation with an eternal mission
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Michel Aflaq was a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist. He is considered to be the principal founder of Ba'athism and its political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Battle for One Destiny (1958) and The Struggle Against Distorting the Movement of Arab Revolution (1975). Aflaq was born into a middle-class family in Damascus, Syria, in 1910. He studied at the Sorbonne, where he met his future political companion Salah al-Din al-Bitar. He returned to Syria in 1932, and began his political career in communist politics. Aflaq became a communist activist, but broke his ties with the communist movement when the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party supported colonial policies through the Popular Front under the French Mandate of Syria. Later in 1940 Aflaq and al-Bitar established the Arab Ihya Movement (later renaming itself the Arab Ba'ath Movement, taking the name from Zaki al-Arsuzi's group by the same name). The movement proved successful, and in 1947 the Arab Ba'ath Movement merged with al-Arsuzi's Arab Ba'ath organisation to establish the Arab Ba'ath Party. Aflaq was elected to the party's executive committee and was elected "'Amid" (meaning the party's leader). The Arab Ba'ath Party merged with Akram al-Hawrani's Arab Socialist Party to establish the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 1952; Aflaq was elected the party's leader in 1954. During the mid-to-late 1950s the party began developing relations with Gamal Abdel Nasser, the President of Egypt, which eventually led to the establishment of the United Arab Republic (UAR). Nasser forced Aflaq to dissolve the party, which he did, but without consulting with party members. Shortly after the UAR's dissolution, Aflaq was reelected as Secretary General of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party. Following the 8th of March Revolution, Aflaq's position within the party was weakened to such an extent that he was forced to resign as the party's leader in 1965. He moved to Iraq, where he was given the symbolic title of Secretary General of the Iraq-based Ba'ath Party. He remained in Iraq until his death in 1989. His body was returned to Syria, where he was posthumously reinstated as the leader of the Ba'ath Party by Hafez al-Assad.
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