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  1. Apr 26, 2024 · Bashar al-Assad (born September 11, 1965, Damascus, Syria) is the Syrian president from 2000. He succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled Syria since 1971. In spite of early hopes that his presidency would usher in an era of democratic reform and economic revival, Bashar al-Assad largely continued his father’s authoritarian methods.

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  2. Hafez Bashar al-Assad (Arabic: حافظ بشار الأسد; born 4 December 2001) is the eldest son of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad. Personal life [ edit ] Assad was born in Damascus on 4 December 2001 and also, was raised there.

  3. Hafez al-Assad. Hafez al-Assad [a] (6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian politician, military officer and revolutionary who served as the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He had previously served as prime minister of Syria from 1970 to 1971 as well as regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian ...

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  5. Nov 4, 2015 · In this picture, taken around 1990, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his wife Anisa Makhlouf pose with their children (L-R) Maher, Bashar, Bassel, who died in a car accident in 1994, Majd and ...

  6. In 2001, Asma gave birth to their first child, a son named Hafez after the child's grandfather Hafiz al-Assad. Bashar al-Assad's son Hafez graduated from Moscow State University in the summer of 2023 with a master's thesis in number theory. Their daughter Zein was born in 2003, followed by their second son Karim in 2004.

  7. Jun 11, 2000 · Hafez al-Assad was the ninth of 11 children, born on Oct. 6, 1930, to minor notables in the village of Qurdaha, in the Ansariya Mountains, which rise sharply from the Mediterranean coast.

  8. Dec 14, 2020 · The article by Steven Heydemann assesses the legacy of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, who have ruled Syria for fifty years with authoritarianism and repression. It examines the economic, political, and social decline of Syria under the Assad regime and its impact on the region and the world.

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