Kamel Asaad
Kamel Bek El Assaad كامل بك الأسعد | |
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Sabri Hamadé | |
Succeeded by | Hussein el-Husseini |
In office 9 April 1966 – 6 December 1966 | |
Preceded by | Sabri Hamadé |
Succeeded by | Sabri Hamadé |
In office 8 May 1964 – 20 October 1964 | |
Preceded by | Sabri Hamadé |
Succeeded by | Sabri Hamadé |
Personal details | |
Born | Ahmed Abdel Latif El-Assaad (father) | 10 February 1932
Kamel Bey El-Assaad (10 February 1932 – 25 July 2010) was a Lebanese politician and za'im (political boss).
Political career
He served starting early 1960 as Deputy (Member of the
Assaad left politics in 1984 after Syria's intervention in Lebanon's internal political policies related to the ratification of the Agreement of May 17, 1984, between Israel and Lebanon, and the period of political crisis which followed.
He was the founder and president of the Lebanese Social Democratic Party (
After serving as a Member of Parliament and its Speaker several times, Assaad later ran for public office but failed to get elected in the Lebanese elections in 1992, 1996 and 2000, in the face of pro-Syrian and pro-Iranian political groups Amal and Hezbollah lists, and called for a boycott of the elections in 2005. He died in 2010, at the age of 78.[2]
Personal life
Coming from a large feudal
His father
He married Ghada al Kharsaa and the couple had three children, Ahmed, a son, and Iman and Maha, two daughters. After their divorce, he married Lina Saad with whom he had three more sons: the twin brothers Khalil and Abdellatif and then a third son, Wael.[4]
Lina Kamel El Assaad, his widow, continues to head the Lebanese Social Democratic Party, the party he established.
Kamel El Assaad's son, Ahmed El Assaad, established the political party
See also
References
- ^ (in Arabic)Republic of Lebanon - House of Representatives History
- ^ Former Speaker Kamel El-Assaad dies at age 78.
- ^ Fouad Ajami, The Vanished Imam: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a of Lebanon (Itahac: Cornell University Press, 1986) p. 69
- ^ a b Great Men from Lebanon website - Kamel Asaad page
- ^ "Candidates in Lebanon election follow cause of slain relatives | Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2010-07-25.