Michel Aflaq (1910 to 1989) was a Syrian philosopher and political theorist who co-founded the Ba'ath Party in Damascus in 1943 with Salah al-Din Bitar. His writing fused pan-Arab nationalism with a socialist critique of colonialism and of the traditional elites who had governed under it, supplying pan-Arabism's most influential intellectual formulation, though rival Ba'athist governments in Syria and Iraq later marginalized him.
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Political RoleMember of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 1 Political RoleSecretary General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 1 Political RoleSecretary General of the Iraq-based Ba'ath Party 1 Connections
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2. Michel Aflaq (Britannica)
Michel Aflaq (Wikipedia)
Ba'ath Party (Wikipedia)
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The party was established by three key figures: Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and associates of Zaki al-Arsuzi.
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