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Wahib al-Ghanim (1919-2003) born inAntakya[1] was a Syrian physician and politician. He was one of the co-founders of theBa'ath Party.
He was the spokesman forZaki al-Arsuzi's grouping of Arab nationalists that "wanted a stronger dose ofsocialism than the Damascus leaders", namelyMichel Aflaq andSalah al-Din Bitar, and made it a necessary condition for the unification of their respective camps into a single party.[2][3]
From April 5–7, 1947, Ghanim, along with 247 others, took part in the founding conference of the Ba'ath Party, where he was elected to the executive committee, which also included Aflaq, Bitar, andJalal al-Sayyid. In the same year, Ghanim created a Ba'athist cell inLatakia.Hafez al-Assad, the future president of Syria and the father of former presidentBashar al-Assad, was one of the first to join.[2]
During the parliamentary elections of 1947 and 1949, Ghanim unsuccessfully tried to become the deputy for Latakia. He was an opponent ofAdib Shishakli, for which he faced persecution. In 1955 - after Shishakhli was deposed of - he joined the cabinet ofSabri al-Asali as health minister. Although Ghanim originally supported the1958 union with Egypt, by 1961 he had changed his position and supported the coup that ended it.[4]
Wahib al-Ghanim.
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