الحزب الشيوعي السوري
Khalid Bakdash (occasionally spelled Khalid Bagdash or Khaled Bekdache, ) was a Syrian politician who lead the Syrian Communist Party (SCP) from 1936 until his death. In 1954 Bakdash became the first member of a communist party to be elected to an Arab parliament. He has since been called the "dean of Arab communism."