Shiblī Yousef Hamad al-Aysamī (Arabic: شبلي العيسمي), alternatively also Shibli-L-Aʾysami, al-Ayasami, al-Ayssami or al-ʿAisamī, (5 February 1925 – June...

Hussein was born in al-Awja, a small village near Tikrit, to Hussein Abd Al-Majid and Subha Tulfah Al-Mussallat. They were both from the Al-Bu Nasir tribe...

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979...

Ali Hassan Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: علي حسن مجيد التكريت, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥasan Majīd al-Tikrītī; c. 1941 – 25 January 2010), nicknamed Chemical Ali (Arabic:...

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (Arabic: عزت إبراهيم الدوري, romanized: Izzat Ibrāhīm ad-Dūrī; 1 July 1942 – 25 October 2020) was an Iraqi politician and army field...

Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the...

family member of El Aissami involved in Ba'athism was his great-uncle, Shibli El Aissami, who was the Assistant Secretary General of the National Command...

on 16 July 1979. Six days after the resignation of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Hussein's accession to President of the Iraqi Republic, Regional...

York: Praeger 1965) at 180. Charif, Maher, Rihanat al-nahda fi'l-fikr al-'arabi, Damascus, Dar al-Mada, 2000 Hourani, Albert, La Pensée Arabe et l'Occident...

Regional Command from 1974 to 1979, and the secretary of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. On 16 July 1979, President Saddam Hussein announced that his government...