Office: | Peasants' Bureau of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch |
Term Start: | March 1968 |
Term End: | 13 November 1970 |
Predecessor: | Muhammad Ashawi |
Successor: | Mahmūd Zuʿbi |
Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start1: | 1 March 1966 |
Term End1: | 29 October 1968 |
Predecessor1: | Salah al-Din al-Bitar |
Successor1: | Muhammad Ashawi |
Term Start2: | 22 September 1965 |
Term End2: | 21 December 1965 |
Predecessor2: | Hassan Mraywed |
Successor2: | Salah al-Din al-Bitar |
Term Start3: | 27 March 1966 |
Term End3: | 13 November 1970 |
Ibrahim Makhūs | |
Birth Date: | 1925 |
Birth Place: | Damascus, French Mandate of Syria |
Death Date: | 10 September 2013 (aged 88) |
Death Place: | Algiers, Algeria |
Alma Mater: | Damascus University |
Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Otherparty: | Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party |
Ibrahim Makhūs or Ibrahim Makhous or Brahim Makhous and Arabic: إبراهيم ماخوس (1925 – 10 September 2013) was a Syrian Syrian Baathist politician who sat on the Regional Command from 1966 to 1970. He served as foreign minister during Salah Jadid's rule.
After Hafiz al-Asad's seizure of power, Makhous established the Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party. Makhūs died in 2013, at the age of 88.[1]
Ibrahim Makhūs was born to a religious and rural Alawite family from the village of Makhūs—the family's namesake—between Latakia and Antioch.[2] His father was a religious shaykh who also worked as a landless cultivator, although he eventually came to own 100 dunams of agricultural land. He served as the arbiter of local disputes and founded a large charitable organization in the Syrian coastal region called "al-Jam'iyyah al-Khayriyyah". It grew to set up a presence in some seventy villages and established one of the first co-ed secondary school in the area.[3]
From a young age, Makhūs worked with his father's association, frequently traveling throughout Latakia's hinterland where he became intimately aware of the peasantry's hardships.[3] While a student, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a volunteer for the Arab forces.
During the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954, he served as a volunteer physician.[2]