Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj

Abdel Hamid Sarraj
Abdel Hamid Sarraj
عبد الحميد السراج
	Sarraj in 1958
Chairman of the Executive Council of the Northern Region of the United Arab Republic
	In office; 20 September 1960 – 16 August 1961
Prime Minister	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by	Nur al-Din Kahala
Succeeded by	Maamun al-Kuzbari
Personal details
Born	September 1925; Hama, French Syria
Died	23 September 2013 (aged 87–88); Cairo, Egypt
Occupation	Minister of Interior (1958–1961) ; Vice-president (1961)
Military service
Rank	Colonel

Abdel Hamid Sarraj (Arabic: عبد الحميد السراج, September 1925 – 23 September 2013) was a Syrian Army officer and politician. When the union between Egypt and Syria was declared, Sarraj, a staunch Arab nationalist and supporter of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, played a key role in the leadership of the Syrian region of the UAR. Due to the repression of the UAR towards the Syrian communists he was nicknamed Sultan Abdel Hamid referring to the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.^[1]

^ Cyrus Schayegh (2013). "1958 Reconsidered: State Formation and the Cold War in the Early Postcolonial Arab Middle East". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 45 (3): 427. doi:10.1017/S002074381300041X. S2CID 154295870.

[1] Cyrus Schayegh (2013). "1958 Reconsidered: State Formation and the Cold War in the Early Postcolonial Arab Middle East". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 45 (3): 427. doi:10.1017/S002074381300041X. S2CID 154295870.

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