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Amin al-Hafiz (Arabic: أمين الحافظ, romanized: Amīn al-Ḥāfiẓ 12 November 1921 – 17 December 2009), also known as Amin Hafez, was a Syrian general, politician, and member of the Ba'ath Party who served as the President of Syria from 27 July 1963 to 23 February 1966.
Sep 5, 2019 · The real Amin al-Hafez really did befriend Cohen in South America. Later, after Hafez returned to Syria and toppled the ruling government with a group of Ba’athist conspirators in 1963,...
Dec 19, 2009 · DAMASCUS, Syria (Agence France-Presse) Amin el-Hafez, the Syrian leader who led the Baathist government of the mid-1960s, died Thursday in Aleppo, Syria. Reports of his age differ, but he was...
Amin al-Hafiz, Ba'athist leader and President of Syria during 1963-1966. After Umran's downfall, the National Command and the Military Committee continued their respective struggle for control of the Ba'ath Party.
Amin al- Hafez (ämēn´ äl-hä´fəz), 1921?–2009, Syrian army officer and politician. He served (1963–65) as chief of state in Syria's Ba'athist government (see Ba'ath party) but had to flee to Lebanon (1965) after radical Ba'athist military officers, led by Nurreddin Attassi and Hafez al- Assad, toppled his government in a coup.
Photograph: Wikipedia Amin al-Hafez, who has died aged 88, ruled Syria's first Ba'athist administration with a genial smile and an iron fist during the turbulent years from 1963 to 1966. He was also the last genuine president from that country's Sunni Muslim majority, since his successor was just a Sunni figurehead for two Alawite officers.
Sep 12, 2011 · Two years before his arrival, Ba'ath party leader Amin al-Hafiz seized power; the year after Cushman's trip, Hafiz was himself ousted by competitors within the regime.
