* 154 – Bardaisan, Syrian scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher, and poet ( d. 222 )

* 1923 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian diplomat, poet, and publisher ( d. 1998 )

* Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologian ( approximate date )

* Narsai, Syrian poet and theologian ( approximate date )

* November 29 – Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologian

* Abu L ' Ala al-Ma ' arri, Syrian poet

Adonis ( an Arabic transliteration of the same name, أدونيس ) is the pen name of a famous Syrian poet, Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, who was nominated more than once for a Nobel Prize for literature, including in 2006.

The lyrics of this anthem come from a poem written in the 1930s by Egyptian-born Syrian poet Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe ' ie.

He established lifelong friendships with the Greek poet Archias of ( Syrian ) Antioch, who migrated to Rome around 102 BC, and with one of the leading Academic philosophers of the time, Antiochus of Ascalon.

* Nur al-Din Ni ’ mat Allah, known as Shah Ni ' matullah Wali ( 1330 – 1431 ), Syrian Islamic scholar and Sufi poet

* Badawi al-Jabal, a Syrian poet

* Adonis or Adunis, pen name of Ali Ahmad Said ( born 1930 ), Syrian poet

Denys Johnson-Davies ( Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز ) is an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

In the Alexander book ( 2nd part ) of the Persian poet Nizami, Maria, a Syrian princess, visits the court of Alexander the Great, and learns from Aristotle ( 384 BC – 322 BC ), among other things, the art of making gold.

Bardaisan (, ; 154 – 222 ; also Latinized as Bardesanes ) was a Syrian gnostic, founder of the Bardaisanites, and a scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher and poet, also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost.

Omar Abu-Riche () ( 10 April 1910 – 15 July 1990 ) was an influential Syrian poet known for his pioneering works.

The second chapter follows the careers of the Syrian poets Nizar Qabbani and Adunis, focusing on the socio-political developments in Syria that mirror the lives of Qabbani and Adonis.

* date unknown – Abu Khalil Qabbani, Syrian dramatist and composer ( d. 1902 )

From Keban to the Syrian – Turkish border, the river drops another over a distance of less than.

Syrian hamsters typically live no more than two to three years in captivity, and less in the wild.

However, the latter species lacks the white shoulder patch, having an all-white lower back instead ; it also has a less well-developed zigzag stripe on the neck, just like the Syrian Woodpecker.

He was assassinated less than a month later in an operation thought to have been arranged by Syrian intelligence and was in turn succeeded by his brother, Amine Gemayel.

* Yom Kippur War 1973-AT-3 Sagger-between 25 % at the start in well trained Egyptian hands and 2 % at the end in less well trained Syrian hands once the threat was understood by tank crews.

By August 2012 it had become apparent to intelligence experts that the Syrian airforce was suffering significant technical difficulties, resulting in less than half of the airforce's most advanced counterinsurgency aircraft such as the Mi-25 Hind-D being available at any given time, due to an increased number of conflict fronts and severe maintenance burdens.

Syrian air carried close to 1. 4 million passengers by 2005 however the number of passengers being carried declined to less than 740, 000 passengers by 2009.

Furthermore, the riots prompted the Arab leadership in Palestine to view themselves less as southern Syrian Arabs and more as a unique Palestinian Arab community.

Quintianus was a Syrian Roman who was twice consul and a political ally to her father, but Lucilla and her mother were against the marriage as a less than ideal match, partly because Quintianus was at least twice Lucilla's age, but also because he was not of her own Roman nobilis social rank though he was descended from rulers in the East.

The Turkish hamster, first catalogued in 1878, is a fairly close relative of the Syrian or golden hamster, though far less is known about it, and it is rarely kept as a pet ( some sources state the hamster is not kept widely as a pet while others simply say it cannot be kept as a pet due to its aggressive nature.

The restoration, however, brought with it a decidedly bizarre character: the first of the restored Severan Emperors, a Syrian historically known as " Elagabalus " ( also seen less correctly as " Heliogabalus ") was already the hereditary high priest of an Oriental sun god, Elagabal.

The northern end of the valley, with its scarce rainfall and less fertile soils, is used primarily as grazing land by pastoral nomads, mostly migrants from the Syrian Desert.

After residential properties in this area became less desirable due to railway developments, it was settled by a mixed succession of Irish, Jewish, Italian, Syrian, and Chinese immigrants.

In another study, female Syrian hamsters housed with a nestbox, bedding, hay, paper towels, cardboard tubes, and branches were observed using a wheel regularly, and benefitted from it in showing less stereotypic bar-gnawing and producing larger litters of young as compared to females kept under the same conditions but without a wheel.

Washington considered the military intervention successful since it brought about regional stability, weakened Soviet influence, and intimidated the Egyptian and Syrian governments, whose anti-West political position had hardened after the Suez Crisis.

) Lebanon's Shiites, on the other hand, have long supported the Syrian presence, as has the Hezbollah militia group and political party.

However, the Syrian government accepted UNSCR 1483 ( after being absent for the actual vote ), which lifted sanctions on Iraq and established a framework to assist the Iraqi people in determining their political future and rebuilding their economy.

** Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba ' athism ( d. 1989 )

" Although Nasser initially turned them down, suggesting that it would take a minimum of five years to establish a feasible political union, he became more afraid of a Communist takeover when the second Syrian delegation composed of military officers was led by Bizri on 11 January 1958 ; Bizri personally discouraged Syro-Egyptian unity.

Due to Syrian pressure, he was replaced in 1971, becoming director of the PLO's political department from 1971 to 1976, He was a member of the PLO Executive Committee from 1984 to 1991.

Throughout this entire period both Assyria and Babylonia continued to exist as geo political entities and named regions, and Assyria in particular became a center of a distinctly Mesopotamian Christianity, namely the ancient Eastern Syrian Rite Christianity which was spread all over the near east and as far away as central Asia, India, Mongolia and China by travelling monks and still exists as the religion of the Assyrians to this day in the form of the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church and Ancient Church of the East.

Its commander Lysias, preoccupied with internal Syrian affairs, agreed to a political compromise that restored religious freedom.

In addition, Syrian and Iranian dam construction has also contributed to political tension within the basin, particularly during drought.

His office was in the Syrian Ministry of Defense and he met daily with Syria ’ s political and military leaders.

In Syria a general strike took place from 20 January to 6 March 1936 spreading to all the major towns, and political demonstrations held throughout the country gave fresh momentum to the Syrian national movement.

Samy Gemayel ( Amine's second son ) who had formed his own political ideas and identity at the time ( much closer in principle and in manner to those of his uncle Bachir ) was a very strong opposer of Pakradouni and his Syrian ties and thus was not a fan of this reconciliation.

In addition, Mashal heads the Syrian branch of the political bureau of Hamas.

In August 2011, Syrian security forces attacked the country's best-known political cartoonist, Ali Farzat, a noted critic of Syria's government and its five-month crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators and dissent.

The merger between Syrian Airways and Misrair, the state-owned airlines of Syria and Egypt came as a consequence of this political union.

But such an attempt was too late as Palestinian, Syrian, Israeli, and other international direct interference had, by that time, taken full control of the political and security powers in the country.

CNI lists its goals as: diplomacy to resolve Middle East issues ; elimination of unaudited aid to foreign nations ; normalized relations between Israel and Middle Eastern states and regional organizations like the Arab League ; U. S. recognition of an independent state of Palestine ; total withdrawal of Israel from all occupied territory Palestinian and Syrian territory ( the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights ); a shared Jerusalem as capital of the two states of Israel and Palestine ; an end to all acts of aggression, provocation, and retaliation by both sides ; a political atmosphere in which neither media, the American electorate or elected officials are afraid to openly discuss issues.

Following the Maronite / Druze civil war of Mount Lebanon in 1860, al-Boustani, having witnessed these political / religious tensions, published an irregular newspaper which he called Nafir al-Surriya ( a Clarion of Syria ), wherein he voiced his ideal of a Syrian fatherland.

The book tells two separate but related tales: first, the romance between Nacib Saad, a respectable bar owner of Syrian origin, and Gabriela, an innocent and captivating migrant worker from the impoverished interior, and second, the political struggle between the old guard of landed Cacao growers, led by the Bastos clan, and the forces of modernization, in the person of Mundinho Falcão, a wealthy young man from São Paulo.

The agreement covered political reform, the ending of the Lebanese Civil War, the establishment of special relations between Lebanon and Syria, and a framework for the beginning of complete Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.

Salah Jadid ( 1926 – 19 August 1993, Arabic: صلاح جديد ) was a Syrian general and political figure in the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Syria, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970.

Quwatli, after a short imprisonment, went into exile in Egypt, waiting for an opportunity to regain his position, while a series of coups paralyzed Syrian political life.

Syrian backing in the 1970s gave as-Sa ' iqa a military weight far greater than its political influence, which has always been small.