Nur al-Din Kahala
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Nur al-Din Kahala | |
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نور الدين كحالة | |
Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj | |
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Born | 1908 Homs, Ottoman Syria |
Died | 1965 (aged 56–57) Damascus, Syria |
Nur al-Din Kahala (
Arabic: نور الدين كحالة; also known as Nureddin Kahalle; 1908–1965) was a Syrian politician during the United Arab Republic (UAR) period (1958–1961). Prior to the UAR period, he served as a minor government bureaucrat.[1]
Biography
Kahala graduated from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.[2] Then he received engineering training in the United States.[3] He represented Syria in the first meeting of the United Nations held in San Francisco, USA, in March 1945.[2]
Kahala was initially appointed the President of the Northern Region (Syria) Executive Council, but on 19 July 1960, President
Akram al-Hawrani. He served alongside vice presidents Abdel Hakim Amer and Abdel Latif Boghdadi. On 20 September 1960 he was appointed the additional post of planning minister.[4]
Bibliography
- Amitai Etzioni (2001), Political Unification Revisited: On Building Supranational Communities, Lexington Books, ISBN 9780739102732
References
External links
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