Elias Farah

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Elias Farah (* 1927 or 1928 in Aleppo , Syria ; † December 6, 2013 in Dubai , United Arab Emirates ), occasionally also Elyas or 'Ilyās Farah (Arabic الياس فرح), was a pan-Arab philosopher and chief ideologist of the (Iraqi) Baath- Party .

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E. Farah's book "The Arab Fatherland after World War II"

Elias Farah came from a Christian Orthodox family in Aleppo and received his doctorate from both the Sorbonne in Paris and Switzerland. He was one of the founding members of the Syrian Ba'ath Party in 1947 and became one of the closest companions of the party founder Michel Aflaq . He was arrested several times for his Baathist party work. After Aflaq was deposed as party leader, he fled with him and Shibli al-Aysami in 1966, first to Lebanon, and then to Iraq from 1968. Aflaq was (again) installed by the Iraqi Baath regime as general secretary of the party's national command (the all-Arab leadership of the party); Farah became a member of the national command and next to al-Aysami Aflaq's closest collaborator.

As Aflaq withdrew from party work because of his advancing age, from 1978 onwards he increasingly transferred the party's ideological orientation to Farah. After Aflaq's death in 1989, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein became the new general secretary of the national leadership and appointed Farah director of the party academy in Baghdad. Farah has written numerous works on the history, development and ideology of the Ba'ath Party and helped orient the party towards the personality cult around Saddam Hussein. After the US invasion of Iraq, the overthrow of the Baath regime and the killing of Saddam Hussein, Farah transfigured him into a martyr. From 2003 he lived in Syria again. After the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, he apparently moved to Dubai, where he is believed to have died in 2013.

Works (selection)

  • The Arab Fatherland after World War II (1973)
  • Le mouvement de liberation arabe face fascisme (1975)
  • Development of Arab Ideology (1978)
  • Some Aspects of the life of the late comrade Michel Aflaq, the founding leader of the Bath Party (1989)

Individual evidence

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literature

  • Milton Viorst: Sandcastles - The Arabs in Search of the Modern World , pp . 29ff . Syracuse University Press 1995
  • Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , 70 (Farah, Elias). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Farah, Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farah, Ilyas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Arab philosopher and ideologue of the Ba'ath party
DATE OF BIRTH 1927 or 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2013
Place of death Dubai