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Kim Ghattas
Lebanon is poised precariously between peace and war
...Then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad often used Hizbollah to negotiate with Israel by fire via Lebanon....
January 16, 2024
Kim Ghattas
All involved in the Israel-Hamas conflict should heed the warnings of 1982
...Two days after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, a planeload of Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrived in Damascus and headed to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley with Syrian president Hafez al-Assad’s blessing....
October 10, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Transcript
How far will the rehabilitation of Assad go?
...Hafez al-Assad was brilliant at that, and it turns out Bashar al-Assad is, too....
May 4, 2023
The Big Read
Syria’s state capture: the rising influence of Mrs Assad
...They did not have connections to the Syrian merchant elite loyal to Assad’s father Hafez....
April 2, 2023
Kim Ghattas
The Syrian earthquake is not a free pass for Assad
...The unspoken, unwritten quid pro quo was that Hafez al-Assad would gain full control of nearby Lebanon, 15 years into a bloody civil war in which Syria was also an actor....
February 14, 2023
Kim Ghattas
As the world swirls, Saudi Arabia repositions itself as a global linchpin
...And after a decade in which Syria stood accused of various terror attacks against the west, then president Hafez al-Assad participated in the military coalition of 35 countries that US president George HW...
June 7, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Kim Ghattas
Lebanon’s constitutional void is an opportunity for regional players
...In 1990, when the US wanted Syrian participation in Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait, it turned a blind eye to Hafez al-Assad’s full takeover of Lebanon....
December 6, 2022
David Gardner
Muammer Gaddafi’s son returns to the political stage
...Examples such as Bashar al-Assad and Gamal Mubarak, sons of Hafez al-Assad and Hosni Mubarak, the presidents of Syria and Egypt respectively, suggest this strategy was not a great success....
November 17, 2021
Syria
Economic crisis begins to crack the bedrock of Assad’s Alawi support
...In Syria’s coastal towns, memorials to dead soldiers mark the sacrifice made by the Alawi minority to defend President Bashar al-Assad, also an Alawi....
April 13, 2021
ObituaryIran
Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur: cleric and revolutionary, 1947-2021
...Iran was by then in a deadly war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was the only Arab leader to back the Islamic republic....
June 18, 2021
ObituarySyrian crisis
Walid al-Muallem, Syrian foreign minister, 1941-2020
...Hafez al-Assad then picked Muallem as assistant foreign minister....
December 4, 2020
Money laundering
French court sentences Bashar al-Assad’s uncle to four years in prison
...A Paris court has sentenced Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, to four years in jail and seized €90m worth of his property in the latest “ill-gotten gains” case targeting wealthy...
June 17, 2020
ObituaryRobert Fisk
Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent and author, 1946-2020
...Yet some 36 years earlier, Fisk had travelled alone to the Syrian city of Hama and filed a detailed piece on a doomed rebellion against the regime of Hafez al-Assad, the former president and present dictator...
November 6, 2020
Syria
Billionaire vs president — Assad family dispute grips Syria
...Alawite sect and has dominated Syria since Mr Assad’s father Hafez seized power in 1970....
May 7, 2020
David Gardner
Family feud breaks apart Syria’s troika of power
...Aside from a blip in 1984, when Hafez al-Assad — the current president’s father — was taken ill and his brother Rifaat al-Assad attempted a coup d’état, they do not air their differences....
May 20, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthThe Big Read
Syria: Assad, his cousins and a Moscow skyscraper
...The marriage between Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez, Syria’s president until 2000, and Anisa Makhlouf, forged a savvy strategic alliance....
November 11, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
‘It looks like judgment day’: inside Syria’s final battle
...Tarek, not his real name, was born into a comfortable family in Idlib in 2000, the year Mr Assad succeeded his father Hafez to become Syria’s president....
February 16, 2020
Syrian crisis
Assad regime emerges as big winner in Turkey-Syria chaos
...Officials will be conscious of the risk of Mr Assad copying his father, former president Hafez al-Assad, by weaponising Kurdish militias against Turkey....
October 14, 2019
ReviewNon-Fiction
Assad or We Burn the Country — vivid account of Syrian war
...When Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, his son Bashar took over and had aspirations for social and economic reform....
June 27, 2019
Turkey
Turks give military their blessing after decades of Kurdish conflict
...A deal with Damascus would bring uncertain consequences for Ankara, which almost went to war with Syria in the late 1990s over support by Mr Assad’s late father, former president Hafez al-Assad, for the...
October 11, 2019
FT Magazine
The men making a fortune from Syria’s war
...Since coming to power in 1971, the Assad family has forged various alliances with Syrian elites. Under Hafez al-Assad, and his Ba’ath party, Syria was socialist....
October 3, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad, BBC2 — a kaleidoscopic view of Syria’s recent history
...After a barrage of Arabic from a thunderstruck patient, the softly-spoken Bashar al-Assad, working in a Paddington eye hospital in the early 1990s, admitted to astonished colleagues that his father was the...
October 8, 2018
David Gardner
Isis is defeated but the jihadism the west has engendered is not
...In Deraa, the southern city where the conflict began eight years ago, Mr Assad has marked the occasion by erecting a new bronze statue of his father, the late Hafez al-Assad, to replace the one toppled by...
March 13, 2019
News in-depthStocks to Watch
Stocks to watch: Thyssenkrupp, Petrofac, Jupiter, Brenntag, Micron
...● Brenntag of Germany slipped after Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the company sold weapons-grade chemicals to a Syrian pharmaceutical group with links to president Bashar Hafez al-Assad’s regime....
June 26, 2019
Roula Khalaf
The enduring myth of the young Arab reformer
...He has appeared under different names: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (son of longtime ruler Hafez), Libya’s Seif al-Islam (son of Muammer Gaddafi), Egypt’s Gamal Mubarak (son of Hosni, the former president), and...
October 17, 2018

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