Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia
WebSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti [c] (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to …
Saddam Hussein | Biography, History, Death, Sons, & Facts
Web24 Apr 2024 · Ṣaddām Ḥusayn al-Tikrītī. Born: April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq. Died: December 30, 2006, Baghdad (aged 69) Title / Office: president (1979-2003), Iraq. Political Affiliation: Baʿath Party. Notable Family Members: son Uday Hussein. son Qusay Hussein. On the Web: Independent - The life and times of Saddam Hussein (May 27, 2024) Top …
Saddam Hussein - Death, Policies & Family - Biography
Web2 Apr 2014 · (1937-2006) Who Was Saddam Hussein? Saddam Hussein was a secularist who rose through the Baath political party to assume a dictatorial presidency. Under his rule, segments of the populace...
Saddam Hussein: how a deadly purge of opponents set up his …
WebPublished: July 22, 2019 11:48am EDT. The scene, a large smoke-filled room in Baghdad 40 years ago on July 22 1979. About a hundred unsuspecting Ba'athist party members sat listening to their...
Ba‘ath Party | History, Ideology, & Movement | Britannica
WebBashar al-Assad. Saddam Hussein. Tariq Aziz. Baʿath Party, Pan-Arabist political party advocating the formation of a single Arab socialist nation. It has branches in many Middle Eastern countries and was the ruling party in Syria from 1963 and in Iraq from 1968 to 2003.
Ba'athist Iraq - Wikipedia
WebUnder Saddam Hussein, the glorification of Saddam and the Ba'athist government was common in state-sponsored artwork. The Ba'ath Party dominated the political life of the country, although a National Progressive Front was proclaimed in 1974 to allow for the (mostly nominal) participation of non-Ba'athist figures and parties in Iraqi politics.
BBC News | Saddam's Iraq: Key events
WebIn 1957, Saddam Hussein, a youth from a village near Tikrit in the north of Iraq, joined the fledgling Iraqi Baath Party which expounded a socialist brand of pan-Arab nationalism. Britain had...
The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of ...
Web24 Aug 2023 · The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2023. Michael Brill. Article. …
The Rise of the Baʿth Party (Chapter 1) - Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party
Web1 The Rise of the Baʿth Party; 2 Party Structure and Organization; 3 The Baʿth Party Branches; 4 Security Organizations during the Baʿth Era; 5 The Baʿth Party and the Army; 6 The Personality Cult of Saddam Hussein; 7 Control and Resistance; 8 Bureaucracy and Civil Life under the Baʿth; Conclusion
Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party Inside an Authoritarian Regime
WebUnder the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward …