Shibli al-Aysami

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In front of the Lebanese embassy in Berlin, Baathist students remembered the disappearance of al-Aysami in 2014.

Shiblī Yousef Hamad al-ʿAysamī ( Arabic شبلي العيسمي Shibli al-Aisami , DMG Šiblī al-ʿAisamī , also transcribed as Chebli , Shebli or Shibli-L-Aʾysami , al-Ayasami and al-Ayssami ; * February 5, 1925 in as-Suwaida , Syria ) is a former Baathist Syrian politician. On May 24, 2011 , he was kidnapped by strangers in Lebanon and has since disappeared.

In Syria

Shibli al-Aysami, who comes from a Druze family, was born in the Dschebel ad-Duruz Druze region, which at the time was split off from Syria as an autonomous Druze state under the French mandate . Al-Aysami studied in Damascus and initially became a teacher. In Damascus he met Michel Aflaq and in 1947 was one of the co-founders of the Ba'ath Party and its national leadership (National Command ).

After the Ba'ath Party came to power in 1963 , he held various ministerial posts in the Syrian government - he was Minister for Education until August 1963, then for Agriculture in the cabinet of Salah ad-Din al-Bitar until November 1963 , and then for Culture until May 1964 in the cabinet of Amin al-Hafiz .

On May 27, 1964, al-Aysami al-Hafiz succeeded the Ba'ath Party's general secretary of the Syrian regional leadership; on December 28, 1965, he was elected deputy chairman of the Presidential Council in place of Nureddin al-Atassis by the National Revolutionary Council February 1966 as Syrian Vice-President first deputy of the President Amin al-Hafiz.

In Iraq

Baath national leadership in Baghdad (around 1974), from left to right: Michel Aflaq , Saddam Hussein , Shibli al-Aysami (center, lighter suit), Hasan al-Bakr and others. a. m.

After wing battles within the Syrian Ba'ath Party and the coup of the left (“neo-Catholic”) wing of February 23, 1966, like Aflaq, al-Hafiz, al-Bitar and other party officials, he was initially arrested and sentenced to death, but was able to escape and fled to Lebanon with Aflaq. After the Ba'ath Party came to power in Iraq, Aflaq and al-Aysami went to Baghdad in 1968. Some of his family stayed in Lebanon, others moved to the USA or Venezuela (e.g. Shlibi's brother Carlos, the father of Tareck El Aissami ).

In Iraq, the Ba'ath Party formed a new national command in 1974; Aflaq became general secretary and al-Aysami his deputy. Although he was replaced in this capacity in 1979 by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , al-Aysami continued to be a major party political journalist and sharp critic of the Syrian neo-Baath regime until he retired into private life in 1992.

Exile and kidnapping

After the US invasion of Iraq , al-Asyami first fled to Egypt in 2003 (unlike al-Hafiz, who returned to Syria), and since 2007 he has held a diplomatic passport from the Republic of Yemen. After a stay in the USA in 2008, he visited his relatives in Lebanon in 2010. On another visit he was abducted by strangers on May 24, 2011 in the city of Aley . His daughter blames the Syrian Assad regime and suspects al-Aysami in a Syrian prison where, given his old age, she fears for his health and his life. Instead, the Syrian regime claimed that the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblat knew about al-Aysami's fate. Others blame Syrian Salafists for the kidnapping of al-Aysami. His family also appealed to the UN Human Rights Committee in 2012 .

Fonts

  • Muhafazat al-Suwayad (1962)
  • La révolution arabe (1971)
  • Arab Unity through experience (Beirut, 1971)
  • Unity, Freedom, Socialism (Madrid, 1976)
  • Arab Socialist Ba'th Party: The Founding Period in the 1940s (Varese, 1977)
  • Unity, Freedom, Socialism (Varese, 1978)

  • German version of the early party history printed in Italy by al-Aysami (with an unusual transcription of his name)

  • Reflections on the concepts of the Bath party and the Iraqi alternative proposal to the Federation of Arab Republics

literature

  • Itamar Rabinovič: Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963-66 - The Army Party Symbiosis . Tel Aviv / Jerusalem 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The English legend in his last Yemeni passport is: "Shibli Yousef Hamad Alayasami". Source: Al Jadeed online (June 21, 2011: أين شبلي العيسمي on YouTube , accessed July 5, 2019.)
personal data
SURNAME Aysami, Shibli al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayasami, Shibli al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian politician, co-founder of the Ba'ath party, Syrian minister and Vice President
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH as-Suwaida