Shafik Wazzan | |
Office: | Prime Minister of Lebanon |
President: | Élias Sarkis Bachir Gemayel Amine Gemayel |
Term Start: | 25 October 1980 |
Term End: | 30 April 1984 |
Predecessor: | Takieddin el-Solh |
Successor: | Rashid Karami |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1925 |
Birth Place: | Beirut, Lebanon |
Death Place: | Beirut, Lebanon |
Nationality: | Lebanese |
Party: | Independent |
Children: | 2 |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Shafik Al-Wazzan (Arabic: شفيق الوزان, January 16, 1925 – July 8, 1999) was a Lebanese politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1980 until 1984. In December 1991, Wazzan was wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta Al Fouka (where he lived) as he was passing through in an armored car.[1]
After political strife had left Lebanon without a government for 137 days, Wazzan was urged into office.[2] He oversaw the withdrawal of Palestinian guerillas from Beirut in 1982.
Wazzan had a son (Dr. Wassim Al Wazzan) and a daughter. He died in 1999 at the age of 74.