Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق, 1910 – 23 June 1989) was a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and its political movement; he is considered by several Ba'athists to be the principal founder of Ba'athist thought. He published various books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Battle for One Destiny (1958) and The Struggle Against Distorting the Movement of Arab Revolution (1975).
Born into a middle-class family in Damascus, Syria, Aflaq studied at the Sorbonne, where he met his future political companion Salah al-Din al-Bitar. He returned to Syria in 1932, and began his political career in communist politics. Aflaq became a communist activist, but broke his ties with the communist movement when the Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party supported France's colonial policies. Later in 1940 Aflaq and al-Bitar established the Arab Ihya Movement (later renaming itself the Arab Ba'ath Movement, taking the name from Zaki al-Arsuzi's group by the same name). The movement proved successful, and in 1947 the Arab Ba'ath Movement merged with al-Arsuzi's Arab Ba'ath organisation to establish the Arab Ba'ath Party. Aflaq was elected to the party's executive committee and was elected "'Amid" (meaning the party's leader).
There she goes with her
Nose in the air.
Funny how
Love can be.
Wonder why she
Pretends I'm not there.
Funny how
Love can be, girl.
Funny how love
Can be.
There she is with
That look in her eye.
Hasn't got time
For me.
Does she know
How it's making me cry?
Funny how love
Can be, girl.
Funny how love
Can be.
What a thing
To happen;
Life without
A friend.
What a thing
To happen;
Funny how true
Love can end.
I can see that she just doesn't care,
How can I make her see?
I'm in love and it just isn't fair.
Funny how love can be, girl,
Funny how love can be.
(vocalizing)
Funny how love can be.
(vocalizing)