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In this article, the surname is Abu Shahla.
Habib Abu Shahla
حبيب أبو شهلا
2nd Legislative Speaker of Lebanon
In office
22 October 1946 – 7 April 1947
Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon and Minister of Education
In office
1943–1945
Minister of Justice
In office
1943–1943
Personal details
Born1902 (1902)
Beirut, Ottoman Empire
Died22 March 1957(1957-03-22) (aged 54–55)
Beirut, Lebanon
EducationAmerican University of Beirut
University of Paris

Habib Abu Shahla (Arabic: حبيب أبو شهلا / Ḥabīb Abū Shahlā, also spelled Abou Chahla) or Abi Shahla (Arabic: أبي شهلا / Abī Shahlā, also spelled Abi Chahla; 1902 – 22 March 1957) was a Lebanese politician and public figure, several times member of Parliament. He hailed from an Orthodox family. Abu Shahla had studied at the American University of Beirut and at the University of Paris. He was the minister of justice in 1943 and the minister of education and Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon between 1943 and 1945 and the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament between 1946 and 1947.

A street bears his name and a statue of him stands in Beirut.

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References

  1. ^ "Obituary". Middle East Forum. Vol. 32. p. 12.
  2. Oren Barak (November 2000). "The Hardships of Consociation, the Perils of Partition: Lebanon, 1943-1990". Davis Occasional Papers. 86: 6.
  3. Donald Malcolm Reid (1981). Lawyers and Politics in the Arab World: 1880–1960. Bibliotheca Islamica. p. 257. ISBN 9780882970288.
  4. Imad Salamey (15 October 2013). The Government and Politics of Lebanon. Routledge. ISBN 9781135011321.
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