ON WHAT MOTIVATED ME TO ESTABLISH THE SYRIAN SOCIAL NATIONALIST PARTY
This short letter was
written by Sa'adeh during his first imprisonment in 1935, at the request of his
lawyer Hamid Franjieh. It offers a valuable insight into the political and
intellectual atmosphere in which the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) was
established. The letter also sets out in a clear fashion the pattern of
Saadeh's early political consciousness, his views on the fundamental national
problems of Syria, and the factors which shaped the development of the SSNP
during its formative stage. It is a moving account of a rising political
thinker trying to break into a hostile political system against enormous odds.
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