Early Life
Saadeh was born in 1904 in Dhour El Choueir, Beirut Vilayet (modern-day Lebanon). He was the son of a Lebanese Christian Orthodox physician, Khalil Saadeh. He completed his elementary education in his birth town and continued his studies at the Lycee des Freres in Cairo and at a Broummana (in modern-day Lebanon) School. In the later part of 1919, Saadeh emigrated to the United States, then in February 1921 he moved to Brazil with his father, who was a prominent Arabic-language journalist. In 1924, Saadeh founded a secret society whose goal was the unification of the Natural Syria; this society was dissolved the following year. Natural Syria, according to Saadeh, included the Levant, Palestine and Transjordan. His concept of Syria included all religious, ethnic and linguistic groups living in this region. During his time spent in Brazil, Saadeh learned German and Russian.
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