Riad Al Solh

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In this Lebanese name, the father's name is Reda and the family name is Al Solh.
Riad El Solh
رياض الصلح
Hamid Franjieh
Personal details
Born17 August 1894
Lamia Al Solh, Alia Al Solh, Bahija Al Solh, Muna Al Solh;
Alma materUniversity of Paris
ProfessionLawyer
Signature

Riad Reda Al Solh (

prime minister of Lebanon after the country's independence.[1][2][3]
Solh was one of the most important figures in Lebanon's struggle for independence, who was able to unite the various religious groups. He is considered one of the founders of Lebanon.

Early life

Riad Al Solh, also written Riad el Solh or Riad Solh, was born in

Sidon and a leading nationalist Arab leader.[4] In 1915 Reda Al Solh was tried by Ottoman forces and went into exile in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire.[4] He also served as Minister of the Interior in Emir Faisal's government in Damascus.[5]

Riad Al Solh studied law and political science at the

Ottoman Parliament.[5]

Career

A statue of Riad Al Solh stands in Beirut's Downtown district

Solh served as prime minister of Lebanon twice. His first term was just after the Lebanon's independence (25 September 1943 – 10 January 1945).

Minister of Finance from September 1943 to July 1944,[12] and the minister of supplies and reserves from 3 July 1944 to 9 January 1945.[13]

Solh held premiership again from 14 December 1946 to 14 February 1951

the Arab League's political committee to the All-Palestine Government during his second term.[16]

Assassination

Solh escaped unhurt from an assassination attempt in March 1950.[4][17] It was perpetrated by a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.[4]

However, several months after leaving office, he was gunned down on 17 July 1951 at

Anton Saadeh, one of the party's founding leaders.[19][20][21]

Personal life

He secretly converted to Shia Islam since, compared to Sunni Islam, its inheritance laws meant that his daughters, his only children, could inherit a greater share of his wealth.[22][23]

Al Solh was married to Fayza Al Jabiri, the sister of two-time

Paris
.

King Mohammed VI's uncle.[25] Her children are Moulay Hicham, Moulay Ismail
and a daughter Lalla Zineb.

Mona Al Solh was formerly married to the

Prince Khalid bin Talal and Princess Reema bint Talal.[26][28]

Bahija Al Solh Assad is married to Said Al Assad who is the former Lebanese ambassador to Switzerland and a former member of parliament. They have two sons and two daughters.

His youngest daughter, Leila Al Solh Hamade, was appointed as one of the first two female ministers in Omar Karami's government.[29]

Legacy

Patrick Seale's book The Struggle for Arab Independence (2011) deals with the history of the Middle East from the final years of the Ottoman Empire up to the 1950s and focuses on the influential career and personality of Solh.[5] A square in downtown Beirut, Riad al-Solh Square,[30] is named after him.[31]

See also

  • List of assassinated Lebanese politicians

References

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  2. S2CID 153915546. Pdf. Archived 12 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b "More than a century on: how Riad Al Solh's legacy lives on in Lebanon today". The National (Abu Dhabi). 17 August 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e Kechichian, Joseph A. (11 June 2009). "Resolute fighter for freedom". Gulf News. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "Interview with Patrick Seale". The Global Dispatches. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  6. ^ "Rulers of Lebanon". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  7. ^ Türedi, Almula (Spring–Summer 2008). "Lebanon: at the edge of another civil war" (PDF). Perceptions: 21–36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-0-520-08782-8
    . Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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  10. JSTOR 421387
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    ISBN 978-0-8386-4183-5
    . Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  12. ^ "Former Ministers". 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Former Ministers". Ministry of Economy and Trade. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  14. ^ a b Kamil Dib, "Warlords and Merchants, The Lebanese Business and Political Establishment", p. 89
  15. ^ "Political leaders of Lebanon". Terra. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  16. JSTOR 2537321
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  17. S2CID 154792218
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  18. ISBN 978-0-87395-291-0
    . Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  19. ^ "Six major leaders killed in Lebanon since 1943". The Telegraph. 2 June 1987. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  20. JSTOR 4283154
    .
  21. ISBN 978-1-84511-735-1
    . Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  22. ISBN 9780231150033
    .
  23. ISBN 9781137281999
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  24. ^ The Middle East enters the twenty-first century, By Robert Owen Freedman, Baltimore University 2002, page 218.
  25. ^ "Video: Wedding of Prince Moulay Abdellah and Lamia Solh". moroccoworldnews.com. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  26. ^ a b Henderson, Simon (27 August 2010). "The Billionaire Prince". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  27. ^ Moubayed, Sami (1 February 2011). "Lebanon cabinet: A tightrope act". Lebanon Wire. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  28. ISBN 978-0-275-99393-1
    . Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  29. ^ "Leila Al Solh" (PDF). World Association of girl guides and girl scoutes. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  30. ^ Young, M., The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 129.
  31. ^ "The Killing Will Continue Until ,C*". Dar Al Hayat. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
Political offices
Preceded by
—
 Prime Minister of Lebanon
1943–1945 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Lebanon
1946–1951 		Succeeded by
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