Ibrahim Hananu

Ibrahim Hananu
Portrait of Hananu, 1932
Born1869
DiedNovember 21, 1935(1935-11-21) (aged 65–66)
NationalitySyrian
Known forLeader of the Hananu Revolt

Ibrahim Hananu (1869–1935) (Arabic: إبراهيم هنانو, romanizedIbrāhīm Hanānū) was a Syrian revolutionary and former Ottoman municipal official who led a revolt against the French colonial presence in northern Syria in the early 1920s. He was a member of a notable landholding family of Kurdish[1] origin[2] in northern Syria.

  1. ^ Awad Halabi, Liminal Loyalties: Ottomanism and Palestinian Responses to the Turkish War of Independence, 1919-22. 2012, Journal of Palestine Studies. “...Ibrahim Hananu, a former Ottoman bureaucrat of Kurdish origin”
  2. ^ Zisser, Eyal (2014-11-15). Bengio, Ofra (ed.). Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland. University of Texas Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-292-76301-2.