Ahmad Hassan (Syrian politician)
Ahmad Hassan (born 1947) is a Syrian diplomat and politician who served as information minister from 2003 to 2004.
Ahmad Hassan | |
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Minister of Information | |
In office 2003 – 4 October 2004 | |
President | Bashar Assad |
Prime Minister | Mohammad Naji Al Otari |
Preceded by | Adnan Omran |
Succeeded by | Mahdi Dakhlallah |
Personal details | |
Born | 1947 (age 75–76) |
Political party | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Early life
Hassan hails from an Alawi family based in Tartous.[1] He was born, in 1947, in a village near Lattakia and later moved to Baniyas.[1]
Career
Hassan served as the head of the first Baathist school in the 1960s.[1] He is a member of Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and close to former vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam.[1] He was also an auxiliary-member of the National Leadership until 1984 when then president Hafez Assad removed the Khaddam faction from the Leadership.[1]
Hassan served as Syria's ambassador to Iran for a long time since the early 1990s until being replaced by Hamid Hassan in May 2003.[2][3] He was appointed information minister to the Syrian cabinet in 2003 and replaced Adnan Omran in the post.[4] Hassan's term ended in October 2004, and he was succeeded by Mahdi Dakhlallah as information minister.[5][6]
References
- Joshua Landis (8 October 2004). "Asad's Alawi dilemma". Syria Comment. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- Joshua Landis (19 January 2005). "Islamism in Syria". Syria Comment. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- Nadia von Maltzahn (2015). The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the Middle East. London; New York: I.B.Tauris. p. 72. ISBN 9781784531690.
- Shmuel Bar (2006). "Bashar's Syria: The Regime and its Strategic Worldview". Comparative Strategy. 25 (5). doi:10.1080/01495930601105412.
- Nicholas Blanford (6 October 2004). "Questions remain after Syrian Cabinet reshuffle". The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- Eyāl Zîser (2007). Commanding Syria: Bashar Al-Asad and the First Years in Power. London; New York: I.B.Tauris. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-84511-153-3.