Elias Farah
Elias Farah (1 October 1927 – 8 December 2013) was a Syrian writer who wrote several books about Arab nationalism and the subject of Arab thoughts and ideology, as advocated by the Ba’ath Party, many of which were translated to several languages. He served as the Director of the Academy of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party in Baghdad. Early life and education Elias Farah was born on 1 October 1927 in the city of Jisr al-Shughur. He came from a Christian Orthodox family and spent much of his early life in Aleppo. He graduated from Syrian University with a degree in literature, and afterwards, began his teaching career in Aleppo. Farah pursued his graduate studies at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where he studied under professor Jean Piaget and earned a doctorate in education and psychology in 1964. Ba'ath Party In 1947, Farah became one of the founding members of the Syrian Ba'ath Party. He was one of the closest companions of the party founder, Michel Aflaq. Farah left Syria after the 1966 Syrian coup d'état, which was carried out by the military wing of the Ba'ath party and led by Salah Jadid as well as the eventual Syrian