Husni al-Za'im
Al Barazi returned to Syria in 1946 and remained in his position as Member of Parliament during all the military coups that took place from the late forties until the mid fifties. During this period, he was accused of plotting against the state and was arrested several times. However, in 1948 he was Governor of Aleppo, and the following year became deputy to the military governor of Syria under Husni al-Za'im. In Aleppo he co-founded the newspaper "al-Nass", which was critical of Egypt's leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.