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Michel Aflaq
Michel Aflaq was a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist, considered by several Ba'athists to be the principal founder of Ba'athist thought. Born into a middle-class Orthodox Christian family in Damascus, he studied at the Sorbonne, and in 1940 founded with Salah al-Din al-Bitar the Arab Ihya Movement, which merged with Zaki al-Arsuzi's group in 1947 to form the Arab Ba'ath Party. His Ba'athism held that the Arab world must be unified into one Arab Nation, and joined Arab socialism to secularism. Ousted in the 1966 Syrian coup d'état, he went to Iraq, where he was Secretary General of the Iraqi-led Ba'ath Party from 1968 until his death in 1989, without de facto power.
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