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Biography of Hafiz Assad
Name: Hafiz Assad
Birth Date: October 6, 1930
Death Date: June 10, 2000
Place of Birth: Qurdaha, Syria
Nationality: Syrian
Gender: Male
Occupations: president
Hafiz Assad
Hafiz Assad (al-'Asad; 1930-2000) took power in Syria in 1970 and became president, a position he retained longer than any other person since Syrian independence in 1946.Hafiz Assad was born on October 6, 1930 into a large, poor peasant family that lived in a rural, mountainous village of Qurdaha, southeast of the Syrian port city of Latakia. He was one of nine children of 'Ali Assad, a farmer, who opposed the French rule that prevailed in Syria prior to independence. Assad was a member of the minority Muslim religious sect called the Alawis and of the Haddadi Clan. The Alawis sect represented roughly 12 percent of the Syrian population but was dominant in the rural areas near Syria's coastline.Assad received his primary education in his local village. Secondary education did not exist in the poor mountain regions of Syria in the 1940s so his family moved to the coast where Assad could receive …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…a regional leader everyone had to reckon with, although he continued to confront and overcome serious domestic and regional challenges.Assad died on June 10, 2000 of heart failure at age 69. He had been suffering from heart problems, lymphoma and kidney failure. Associated Organizations Further Reading Assad and recent events in Syria are discussed prominently in several books written about post-independence Syria. Among the better volumes are: Syria by Tabitha Petran (1972); Syria under the Ba'th, 1963-1966 by Itamar Rabinovich (1972); Syria and the Lebanese Crisis by Adeed Dawisha (1980); Syria, Modern State in an Ancient Land by John F. Devlin (1983); The Ba'th and Syria, 1947-1982: the Evolution of Ideology, Party and State by Robert W. Olson (1983); and The Islamic Struggle in Syria by Umar Ab-Allah (1984).For further reading on Assad see also "Just Kidding," New Republic (January 8-15, 1996); "Holy Terror," New Republic(April 22, 1996); "The Shame of Lebanon," New York Review(April 25, 1996) and "Preparing for War," Time (December 9, 1996).
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