Image: Baath Party founder Michel Aflaq in the late 1930s

Description: Baath Party founder Michel Aflaq in the late 1930s / At the time, Aflaq was teaching history and philosophy at the Tajheez School in Damascus
Title: Baath Party founder Michel Aflaq in the late 1930s
Credit: The Online Museum of Syrian History
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