Antoun Saadeh
| Antoun Saadeh أنطون سعادة |
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1 March 1904 Dhour El Choueir, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 8 July 1949 (aged 45) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Cause of death | Executed |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Syrian Philosophy |
| School | Romanticism, Nationalism, Syrian Social Nationalism |
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Main interests
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Political philosophy, Philosophy, Sociology, History, Literature, Fine Arts |
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Notable ideas
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Natural Syria, Syrian Social Nationalism |
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Antoun Saadeh (Arabic: أنطون سعادة; 1 March 1904 – 8 July 1949) was a Lebanese philosopher, writer and politician who founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
Saadeh was born in 1904 in Dhour El Choueir, Mount Lebanon Moutasarrifia. He was the son of a Lebanese Christian Orthodox physician, Khalil Saadeh and Naifa Nassir Khneisser. His father was himself a Syrian nationalist as well as democracy advocate, and also an intellectual and author, who has been described as "a prolific writer and polymath, whose works span the fields of politics, literature, journalism, novel-writing, and translation". Antoun Saadeh completed his elementary education in his birth town and continued his studies at the Lycée des Frères in Cairo and at a Broummana (in modern-day Lebanon) School. In the later part of 1919, Saadeh emigrated to the United States, where he resided for approximately one year with his uncle in Springer, New Mexico and worked at a local train station. In February 1921, he moved to Brazil with his father who was a prominent Arabic-language journalist. In 1924, Saadeh founded a secret society which aimed at the unification of Natural Syria. This society was dissolved the following year. Natural Syria, according to Saadeh, included the Levant, Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and parts of Southern Turkey. His concept of Syria included all religious, ethnic and linguistic groups living in this region. During his time spent in Brazil, Saadeh learned German and Russian. Ultimately, he became a polyglot fluent in seven languages : Arabic, English, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish and Russian.
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