Ibrahim Hananu

Ibrahim Hananu (Arabic إبراهيم هنانو, DMG Ibrāhīm Hanānū; * 1869, † November 21, 1935 ) was the founder of the Syrian National block.

The son of Kurdish landowners was born in Kafr Takharim west of Aleppo and raised in Aleppo. He studied in Aleppo and Constantinople Opel. There, he became a student at the Committee of Union and Progress.

After graduating, he taught briefly at the Military Academy. As in 1916, the Arab Revolt broke out, Hanano joined the Arab army under Faisal I in 1918 and moved with the Allies in Aleppo one.

In the autumn of 1919, the French army had landed on the Syrian coast and preparing to occupy the whole of Syria, Hanano launched a revolt. He was responsible for the disarmament of numerous French units and the destruction of railroads and telegraph lines. He received help from the Turkish nationalist movement under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Hananus and some other revolts culminated in 1925, a general uprising against the French occupation of the new Syrian national state. In the 1930s, he reaffirmed his reputation as a hardliner and refused to negotiate with the French before they have promised the complete and unconditional independence of Syria.

Hananu died 1935 in Aleppo. He is still regarded as one of the most famous fighters of the resistance against the French mandate. After his death Hananus house in Aleppo Syrian nationalists was used as the " House of the People ".