Hussein al-Sharaa
Hussein al-Sharaa | |
|---|---|
حسين الشرع | |
 al-Sharaa speaking at the Tuesday Economic Symposium in Damascus in 1992 | |
| Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
| Occupation(s) | Academic and Arab nationalist |
| Movement | Nasserism |
| Children | Ahmed al-Sharaa |
| Relatives | Al-Sharaa family |
Hussein Ali al-Sharaa[a] (born 1944) is a Syrian academic and Arab nationalist activist. He is the father of the current de facto leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Biography
[edit]Hussein Ali al-Sharaa was born in 1944 in Fiq, Golan Heights, Syria. His father, Ali Mohammed al-Sharaa, was a landowner and his family owned most of the lands of Fiq.[1][2] Hussein al-Sharaa's grandfather, Mohammed Khalid al-Sharaa, and uncles were among the fighters against French colonialism.[3] The family were displaced in 1967 after the Israeli occupation during the Six-Day War.[4]
He is a cousin of Farouk al-Sharaa.[5][6][7]
Hussein al-Sharaa was an Arab nationalist student activist for the Nasserists in Syria. He was imprisoned by Syrian neo-Ba'athists during the anti-Nasserist purges initiated after the 1961 and 1963 coup d'états, which broke up the United Arab Republic and propelled the Arab Socialist Ba'ath party to power.[4] Al-Sharaa later escaped prison to complete his higher studies in Iraq in 1971. During this period, he travelled to Jordan to co-operate with the Palestinian fedayeen of the Palestine Liberation Organization. After returning to Syria in the 1970s, then under Hafez al-Assad's rule, he was again imprisoned before being released and finding asylum in Saudi Arabia.[4] From a peasant background and a graduate in economics from the University of Baghdad, al-Sharaa worked in the Saudi oil industry and published numerous books in Arabic on regional economic development, particularly focusing on natural resources and their potential contribution to education, agriculture, and military advancement.[8][9]
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- ^ https://www.wattan.net/ar/news/182427.html
- ^ https://janoubia.com/2016/08/09/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%87%D9%87/
- ^ Almustafa, Hamzah Almustafa; Jazmati, Hossam (22 June 2021). "Syria war: Inside the world of HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 6 December 2024.
- ^ "سيرة ذاتية تفسر التحولات: من داخل عوالم زعيم هيئة تحرير الشام أبي محمد الجولاني". تلفزيون سوريا (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2024-12-09. Retrieved 2024-12-13.