Elias Farah

He graduated from Syrian University with a degree in literature, and afterwards, began his teaching career in Aleppo.

Farah left Syria after the 1966 Syrian coup d'état, which saw the military wing of the Ba'ath party, led by Salah Jadid and eventual Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, overthrow the government of Amin al-Hafiz.

Farah fled to Lebanon and lived there for two years before later moving to Iraq, where he continued his work in the Ba'ath Party.

After a three-year period of vacancy following Aflaq's death in 1989, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein became the new general secretary of the Ba'ath Party and appointed Farah as the Director of the Academy of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party in Baghdad.

[2] The 2003 Invasion of Iraq coupled with deteriorating health led Farah to return to his native Syria, where he settled in the capital of Damascus.