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Article: Boundless ambition. (Syrian Socialist National Party)(includes related article)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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SYRIA WATCHERS have long assumed that the Muslim Brotherhood is the principle challenge to the regime of President Hafez Assad, which in November celebrated its 24th year in power. They may soon have to rethink their equations in light of the growing strength of an old force which champions the ideals of secularism, Syrian nationalism and the concept of a "Greater Syria."
The Syrian Social Nationalist party (SSNP) was founded in Beirut in the early 1930s by Antoun Saadeh, a Greek Orthodox Christian from Lebanon. Saadeh was executed in 1949 after an unsuccessful attempt to mount a coup d'etat against the Lebanese government.
Since then, however, the SSNP ...