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Hussein al-Sharaa | |
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حسين علي الشرع | |
![]() al-Sharaa speaking at the Tuesday Economic Symposium in Damascus in 1992 | |
Born | 1946 (age 78–79) |
Alma mater | University of Baghdad |
Occupation(s) | Academic and Arab nationalist |
Movement | Nasserism |
Children | Maher and Ahmed |
Hussein Ali al-Sharaa [a] (born 1946) [1] is a Syrian economist and former Arab nationalist activist. He is the father of the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Hussein Ali al-Sharaa was born in Fiq, Golan Heights, Syria. His father, Ali Mohammed al-Sharaa, was a landowner and his family owned most of the lands of Fiq. [2] [3] Hussein al-Sharaa's grandfather, Mohammed Khalid al-Sharaa, and uncles were among the fighters against French colonialism. [4] The family were displaced in 1967 after the Israeli occupation during the Six-Day War. [5]
He is the cousin of Farouk al-Sharaa. [6] [7] [8] Also, his uncle is married to Farouk's aunt. [9]
Hussein al-Sharaa was an Arab nationalist student activist for the Nasserists in Syria. He was imprisoned by Syrian neo-Ba'athists during the anti-Nasserist purges initiated after the 1961 and 1963 coup d'états, which broke up the United Arab Republic and propelled the Arab Socialist Ba'ath party to power. [5] Al-Sharaa later escaped prison to complete his higher studies in Iraq in 1971. During this period, he travelled to Jordan to co-operate with the Palestinian fedayeen of the Palestine Liberation Organization. After returning to Syria in the 1970s, then under Hafez al-Assad's rule, he was again imprisoned before being released and finding asylum in Saudi Arabia. [5] He wrote several political books. [10]
He is a graduate in economics from the University of Baghdad. [11]
He has published numerous books in Arabic on regional economic development, particularly focusing on natural resources and their potential contribution to education, agriculture, and military advancement. [11] [12]