{{Short description|Syrian doctor and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] | name = Ibrahim al-Hadid | native_name = {{Script/Arabic|ابراهیم الحديد}} | native_name_lang = ar | image = | caption = | office = General Secretary of the [[Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Central Command]] of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region]] | status = Acting | deputy = ''Himself'' | term_start = 8 December 2024 | term_end = 11 December 2024 | predecessor = [[Bashar al-Assad]] | successor = ''Party dissolved'' | office1 = Assistant General Secretary of the [[Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Central Command]] of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region]] | 1blankname1 = General Secretary | 1namedata1 = [[Bashar al-Assad]]<br />''Himself'' (acting) | term_start1 = 8 May 2024 | term_end1 = 11 December 2024 | predecessor1 = [[Hilal Hilal]] | successor1 = ''Party dissolved'' | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}} | death_date = | birth_place = [[Homs]], [[Homs Governorate]], [[Second Syrian Republic|Syria]] | death_place = | placeofburial = | placeofburial_label = | birth_name = | party = [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Ba'ath Party]] (until 2024) | other_party = [[National Progressive Front (Syria)|National Progressive Front]] (until 2024) | profession = [[Medical Doctor]], [[Politician]] | occupation = [[Professor]], [[Dean (education)|Dean]] | alma_mater = [[University of Aleppo]]<br />[[University of London]] | children = | relations = | spouse = }} '''Ibrahim al-Hadid''' ({{langx|ar|ابراهيم الحديد}}; born 1956)<ref name="Baath1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.baathparty.sy/Posts.php?id=56287|title=السيرة الذاتية للرفاق أعضاء القيادة المركزية لحزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي07-05-2024|access-date=10 May 2024|archive-date=8 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508091459/http://www.baathparty.sy/Posts.php?id=56287|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a [[Syria]]n doctor and politician, who was the assistant general secretary of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Ba'ath Party]] from 8 May to 11 December 2024.<ref name="Ags1">{{Cite web|url=https://alwatan.sy/archives/388689|title=هنأ بوتين بتنصيبه رئيساً لروسيا الاتحادية لولاية جديدة … الرئيس الأسد للقيادة المركزية: الحوار أحد أهم آليات تعزيز حضور «البع|trans-title=He congratulated Putin on his inauguration as President of the Russian Federation for a new term... President al-Assad of the Central Command: Dialogue is one of the most important mechanisms for strengthening the presence of the “Baath Party.”|date=9 May 2024|access-date=10 May 2024|publisher=[[Al-Watan (Syria)|Al Watan Newspaper]]}}</ref> He was the Ba'ath Party secretary of the Branch Command in the [[University of Aleppo]] between 2018 and 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaper.albaathmedia.sy/2024/05/09/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84-2/|date=9 May 2024|title=القيادة المركزية لحزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي وتوزيع المكاتب على الأعضاء|work=Al Baath|access-date=10 May 2024 |last1=اليوسف |first1=علي }}</ref> He served two terms as a member of the Aleppo Party Branch Command.<ref name="Ags1"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tishreen.news.sy/?p=897133|title=الرئيس بشار الأسد يترأس اجتماعاً للقيادة المركزية الجديدة لحزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي|date=8 May 2024|access-date=10 May 2024|publisher=[[Tishreen (newspaper)|Tishreen]]}}</ref>
==Life and education== Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Hadid was born in [[Homs]] in 1956.<ref name="Baath1"/> He studied medicine at the [[University of Aleppo]], finishing with a bachelor's degree in medicine in 1980.<ref name="Baath1"/> He ended his studies in 1985 at the University of Aleppo with a specialty in clinical [[Urology]].<ref name="Baath1"/> In 1986, he was dispatched to the [[United Kingdom]] and acquired a diploma in Urology from the [[University of London]].<ref name="Baath1"/> In 1989, he received a Fellowship Certificate from the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]] (FRCS).<ref name="Baath1"/>
==Career== In the 1990s, he was head of the ambulance and urology divisions in Aleppo. Between 2012 and 2018, he was named the general director of Aleppo University Hospital and dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Aleppo.<ref name="Baath1"/> Between 2018 and 2022, he held positions of the general director of Al-Kindi Hospital and secretary of the Party Branch at the University of Aleppo.<ref name="Baath1"/>
After the [[fall of the Assad regime]] in December 2024, al-Hadid announced that the Ba'ath Party supports a new transitional government for the sake of maintaining unity in Syria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Assad's Ba'ath Party Says Supports Syria Transition Phase |work=[[Barron's]] |date=9 December 2024 |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/assad-s-baath-party-says-supports-syria-transition-phase-d8810bb2 }}</ref> On December 11, the Ba'ath Party suspended all its activities indefinitely and transferred its assets to the Syrian state, effectively dissolving the party.<ref>Hassoun, Ali; [https://newspaper.albaathmedia.sy/2024/12/11/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A/ بيان داخلي (Internal statement)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241212114638/https://newspaper.albaathmedia.sy/2024/12/11/%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%8a/ |date=12 December 2024 }} ''[[Al-Ba'ath]]'', 11 December 2024, Retrieved 12 December 2024</ref>
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