AH AbdulWahab Homad Digital Legacy
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Memoirs of the Secession

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Table of Contents

  1. 01 Front Matter: Title Page and Photographs of the Secession Cabinet and the 9 March 1963 Government
  2. 02 Before These Memoirs - Part 1: The Morning of the 28 September Coup and Meeting Nasser at Cairo's Command Headquarters
  3. 03 Before These Memoirs - Part 2: Field Marshal Amer's Expulsion from Damascus and the Loyalist Stand of Aleppo and Latakia
  4. 04 Before These Memoirs - Part 3: Formation of Ma'mun al-Kuzbari's First Secessionist Cabinet and Its Early Foreign Recognitions
  5. 05 Before These Memoirs - Part 4: Veteran Politicians' Statement Backing the Secession and Rushdi al-Kikhya's Refusal to Sign It
  6. 06 Before These Memoirs - Part 5: Nasser's 5 October Speech Renouncing War Over Syria, and the First Bitar-Hourani Split
  7. 07 Before These Memoirs - Part 6: Shukri al-Quwatli's Zurich Hospital-Bed Endorsement of the Secessionist Government
  8. 08 Before These Memoirs - Part 7: Meeting Nahlawi's Officers and the Opium Accusation Against Field Marshal Amer
  9. 09 Before These Memoirs - Part 8: Rebutting the Secessionists' Three Alleged Errors and Khaled al-Azm's Self-Contradicting Memoirs
  10. 10 Before These Memoirs - Part 9: Nazim al-Qudsi Accepts the Presidency After al-Kikhya's Refusal, and Kuzbari's Forced Resignation
  11. 11 Before These Memoirs - Part 10: Nazim al-Qudsi's Election as President and the Author's Declined Paris Ambassadorship
  12. 12 Before These Memoirs - Part 11: Founding the United Arab Front and the Secret Qudsi-Qasim Rutba Conference
  13. 13 Before These Memoirs - Part 12: The 28 March 1962 Coup, the Author's Detention, and Badr al-A'sar's Homs Mutiny
  14. 14 Before These Memoirs - Part 13: The Jasim Alwan-Louai al-Atassi Aleppo Mutiny and Qudsi's Return to Power Under Duress
  15. 15 Before These Memoirs - Part 14: Formation of Bashir al-Azma's Ministry and a Direct Meeting with President Qudsi on Union
  16. 16 Before These Memoirs - Part 15: Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj's Escape from Mezzeh Prison and the Doomed National Affairs Committee
  17. 17 Before These Memoirs - Part 16: Nasser's General Congress Speech and Hasan al-Hakim's Proposal for an Arab Confederation
  18. 18 Before These Memoirs - Part 17: Critiquing Akram al-Hourani's Unity Pamphlet and the Three-Way Split of the Baath Party
  19. 19 Before These Memoirs - Part 18: Cairo's Official Al-Ahram Response Accepting a Carefully Studied Union with Syria
  20. 20 Before These Memoirs - Part 19: The Secret Arrest Memorandum Targeting the Nasserist Five and a Night in Hiding
  21. 21 Before These Memoirs - Part 20: The Nasserist Five's Memorandum to al-Qudsi and the Press Campaign It Unleashed
  22. 22 Before These Memoirs - Part 21: The Intelligence Assault on Ratib al-Husami in the Halbouni Quarter
  23. 23 Before These Memoirs - Part 22: The Bombing of the Author's Car and al-Qudsi's Living in Tangier Remark
  24. 24 Before These Memoirs - Part 23: The Secret Recording That Confirmed Mati al-Samman Ordered the Car Bombing
  25. 25 Before These Memoirs - Part 24: The Forged United Arab Front Statement Broadcast on Cairo Radio in the Nasserists' Name
  26. 26 Before These Memoirs - Part 25: Wadih Saydawi's Union of Dynamite and Human Remains Article Calling the Five Haganah Officers
  27. 27 Before These Memoirs - Part 26: President al-Qudsi's Angry Outburst in Aleppo as the Crowd Cheered for Abdel Nasser
  28. 28 Before These Memoirs - Part 27: Cousin Major Adnan Nabulsi, Barred From Visiting, Later Killed by an Israeli Missile
  29. 29 Before These Memoirs - Part 28: Seventeen Lawyers Withdraw From Defending the Aleppo Coup Officers Over Court Abuses
  30. 30 Before These Memoirs - Part 29: The Arab League Council's Walkout at Chtaura Over Syria's Complaint Against Egypt
  31. 31 Before These Memoirs - Part 30: Dawalibi's Claim That al-Shishakli Once Asked Him to Meet Secretly With Ben-Gurion
  32. 32 Before These Memoirs - Part 31: Khaled al-Azm's Government and the Coup That Ended Yemen's Imamate
  33. 33 Before These Memoirs - Part 32: Dr. Sami al-Jundi's Account of Being Held Thirty-Six Days in a Prison Latrine
  34. 34 Before These Memoirs - Part 33: The Full Text of Nabih al-Azma's Open Letter to President al-Qudsi
  35. 35 Before These Memoirs - Part 34: The Blockade of Cuba, the Gravest Day in World History
  36. 36 Before These Memoirs - Part 35: A Chance Street Meeting With Salah al-Din al-Bitar and His Political Revelations
  37. 37 Before These Memoirs - Part 36: Saudi Arabia's Abolition of Slavery and Prince Faisal's Announcement
  38. 38 Before These Memoirs - Part 37: Sabri al-Asali, al-Dawalibi, and al-Kuzbari's Failed Bid to Unite the Secessionist Parties
  39. 39 Year 1963 - Part 1: Rifts Between Zahreddine and al-Samman, and Rumors of al-Nahlawi's Return
  40. 40 Year 1963 - Part 2: The Failed 13 January Coup Attempt by Abdel Karim al-Nahlawi
  41. 41 Year 1963 - Part 3: The 8 February 1963 Coup in Iraq and the Fall of Abdel Karim Qasim
  42. 42 Year 1963 - Part 4: Adel al-Hajj Murad's Ultimatum and Officers' Demand for a Homad-Bitar-Atassi Government
  43. 43 Year 1963 - Part 5: A Secret Coup Proposal Offering the Author the Premiership Through Ziad al-Hariri's Emissary
  44. 44 Year 1963 - Part 6: President al-Qudsi's Silence When Officers Demand He Name Homad Prime Minister
  45. 45 Year 1963 - Part 7: The Suppressed Amnesty Decree, and Zahreddine's and al-Azm's Verdicts on the Secession's Fall
  46. 46 The 9 March Government - Part 1: The All-Night Coup Negotiations and the Author's Appointment as Minister of Finance
  47. 47 The 9 March Government - Part 2: Nasser's Telegram, the Huge Damascus Demonstrations, and the First Stage of Union Talks
  48. 48 The 9 March Government - Part 3: Nasser Demands to Know Whether He Is Negotiating With Syria or With the Baath Party
  49. 49 The 9 March Government - Part 4: Aflaq's Secret 70,000-Pound Payment from Nasser and the Purge of Nasserist Officers Begins
  50. 50 The 9 March Government - Part 5: Homad and Qasim's Secret Resignation from the Government Over Baathist Domination
  51. 51 The Unity Project Unanimously Approved - Part 1: The Tripartite Unity Charter Is Signed After Failed Mediation by Boumediene and al-Sallal
  52. 52 The Unity Project Unanimously Approved - Part 2: Secessionist Leaders Referred to Security Courts, and Homad and Qasim's Memorandum of Resignation
  53. 53 The Unity Project Unanimously Approved - Part 3: Ziad al-Hariri's Ultimatum to the Baathists and His Expulsion from Syria
  54. 54 The Unity Project Unanimously Approved - Part 4: General Qatini's Memorandum Reveals Michel Aflaq's Secret Deal with the American Embassy
  55. 55 The Unity Project Unanimously Approved - Part 5: The Failed 18 July Pro-Nasser Uprising, Mass Executions, and the Author's Surrender to Prison
  56. 56 Behind Bars - Part 1: Executions Witnessed from the Dormitory Window at Mezzeh Prison
  57. 57 Behind Bars - Part 2: Nasser's Radio Announcement of His Execution and a Last-Minute Reprieve
  58. 58 Behind Bars - Part 3: Nine Nights in a Solitary Cell, Torture Heard Nightly, and an Officer's Suicide Attempt
  59. 59 Behind Bars - Part 4: A Guard's Rose in a Tea Cup, and a Confession Naming Him Foreign Minister
  60. 60 Behind Bars - Part 5: Imprisoned Alongside Ousted President Nazim al-Qudsi, and a Spy Tortured by a Trained Dog
  61. 61 Behind Bars - Part 6: Torture Survivors' Crushed Feet and Burns, and Two Jewish POWs Given Geneva Convention Treatment
  62. 62 Behind Bars - Part 7: A Staged Escape Trap, and Amin al-Hafiz's Broken Promise of Release
  63. 63 Behind Bars - Part 8: The Night the Tribunal's Death Sentences Were Handed Down
  64. 64 Behind Bars - Part 9: Secret Post-Release Talks with Amin al-Hafiz, Salah Jadid, and Muhammad Umran on Restoring Union
  65. 65 Behind Bars - Part 10: Teaching in Rabat and Kuwait, and a Frank Critique to General Khleifawi
  66. 66 Behind Bars - Part 11: Secret Meetings with Salah al-Din al-Bitar and Akram al-Hourani on Syria's Sectarian Violence
  67. 67 Behind Bars - Part 12: Maarouf al-Dawalibi's Claim That His Warning to Kennedy Led to the President's Assassination
  68. 68 Miscellaneous Excerpts Kept Among My Papers: A Captioned Photograph Collection from His Ministerial Years, 1955 to 1963
  69. 69 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 1: His 1951 Radio Address to Teachers and a Tribute to His Education Reforms
  70. 70 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 2: His 1951 Radio Address Defining Democracy Under the New Syrian Constitution
  71. 71 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 3: A 1951 Radio Talk on Nationalization and a 1950 Speech on Palestine's Partition
  72. 72 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 4: A 1948 Address on Alleged Jewish World Domination, and Telegrams to Nasser and Sadat
  73. 73 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 5: A 1982 Meeting with Jasim Alwan and an Account of the 1965 Mosque Raid
  74. 74 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 6: Officers' Testimony on the 1948 Samakh Disaster and King Abdullah's Suspected Betrayal
  75. 75 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 7: Defense Minister Ahmad al-Sharabati's Bribe Demand That Left the 1948 Army Without Arms
  76. 76 Articles, Radio Addresses, and Interviews Recorded at the Time in My Own Papers - Part 8: Rashed al-Qatini's Testimony on the 8 March 1963 Coup and Aflaq's Secret US Deal