{{Short description|Syrian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Ibrahim Makhous |image = Zuayyin with Jundi and Makhous 1967 in Paris.jpg |image_size = 200px |caption =Ibrahim Makhous second from the right, Paris 1967 |office = Peasants' Bureau of the [[Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Regional Command]]<br>of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] |term_start = March 1968 |term_end = 13 November 1970 |predecessor = [[Muhammad Ashawi]] |successor = [[Mahmūd Zuʿbi]] |office1 = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Syria)|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]] |office3 = Member of the [[Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Regional Command]]<br>of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] |term_start3 = 27 March 1966 |term_end3 = 13 November 1970 |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 = [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] of the [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] |other_party = [[Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party]] }} '''Ibrahim Makhous''' ({{langx|ar|إبراهيم ماخوس|Ibrahim Makhūs}}, also known as '''Brahim Makhous''') (1925 – September 2013), was a [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Baathist]] politician who sat on the [[Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Regional Command]] from 1966 to 1970. He served as [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Syria)|foreign minister]] during [[Salah Jadid]]'s rule.
After [[Hafez al-Assad|Hafiz al-Asad]]'s seizure of power, Makhous, who was in exile, established the [[Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party]]. He died in 2013, at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lexpressiondz.com/actualite/180963-l-opposant-syrien-ibrahim-makhous-tire-sa-reverence.html |title=L'Expression - Le Quotidien - L'opposant syrien Ibrahim Makhous tire sa révérence |publisher=Lexpressiondz.com |date= |accessdate=2013-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130915075936/http://www.lexpressiondz.com/actualite/180963-l-opposant-syrien-ibrahim-makhous-tire-sa-reverence.html |archive-date=2013-09-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life== Ibrahim Makhūs was born to a religious and rural [[Alawite]] family from the village of Makhūs—the family's namesake—between [[Latakia]] and [[Antioch]].<ref name="Batatu163">Batatu, p. 163.</ref> His father was a religious ''[[shaykh]]'' who also worked as a landless cultivator, although he eventually came to own 100 [[dunam]]s 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.<ref name="Batatu169">Batatu, p. 169.</ref>
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.<ref name="Batatu169"/> While a student, he fought in the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]] as a volunteer for the Arab forces. {{Citation needed|reason=I have considerable doubts that he did, and in fact, he thought the Palestinians were in the wrong breaking the UN decision|date=April 2018}}
During the [[Algerian War of Independence]], which began in 1954, he served as a volunteer physician.<ref name="Batatu163"/>
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