Darem Tabbaa Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	HE, Dr, Prof
Darem Tabbaa دارم الطباع
Birth Place:	Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Second Syrian Republic
Profession:	University Professor, Politician, Scientist, Civil servant
Alma Mater:	University of Leipzig University of Göttingen
Residence:	Damascus
Children:	5
Nationality:	Syrian
Office:	Minister of Education
President:	Bashar al-Assad
Primeminister:	Hussein Arnous
Predecessor:	Imad al-Azab
Successor:	Muhammad Amer Mardini
Term End:	8 August 2023
Term Start:	30 August 2020

Darem Tabbaa (Arabic: دارم الطباع) (born 1958) is a Syrian veterinarian and politician. He served as Education Minister from August 2020^[1] until August 2023.^[2]

Education

He graduated from the faculty of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Al Baath University as a veterinarian in 1981.

He obtained a PhD in Virology, Epidemiology and Public Health from the Faculty of veterinary medicine of the University of Leipzig in 1988. And obtained a second PhD in Tropical and Subtropical Animal Hygiene from the University of Göttingen in 1998.

Political career

He has been an accredited expert at the Athens World Health Organization (WHO) Center for Health and Environmental Science Education for more than a quarter of a century.^[3]

He has occupied many scientific positions as a head of section, vice –dean and a dean of college.

He runs many international Syrian projects and in 2015 he became a Director of the National Center for Educational Curriculum Development and remained until 2019 and later was named as Assistant Minister of Education.

Academic career

• 1981-1983 Officer at the central veterinary laboratory in Damascus, for bacterial diagnosis of animal diseases, vaccine production, and working in private clinic for large animals in the Ghota region around Damascus.
• 1983-1988 Aspirant at the University of Leipzig/ Germany
• 1988-1990 Lecturer at the faculty vet medicine of Al Baath university, Hama/ Syria
• 1990-1994 Docent at the faculty of veterinary medicine of Al Baath university Homs for animal health.
• 1994-1999: Associate professor of animal hygiene at the faculty of Veterinary medicine Hama/ Syria
• 1989-present : Director of the research laboratory of the faculty of veterinary medicine Hama/ Syria
• 1993-present : Director of the project for animal protection in Syria in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad in London, UK
• 1995-2000: Vice -dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine Hama/Syria.
• 2005-2007 Dean of the faculty of veterinary medicine Hama/Syria
• 1991-present: Member at the Editing board of the scientific journal of Al Baath University.
• 1990-present: Member at the executive board of the international society of animal hygiene
• 1989-present: Moderator for project planning with the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GIZ) through OOPP (Objective Oriented Project Planning)
• 1999 : Professor of veterinary public health and animal hygiene

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2021-02-04 . السيرة الذاتية للدكتور دارم طباع وزير التربية . 2021-12-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210204140523/http://pministry.gov.sy/contents/16901/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%B7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9 . 4 February 2021 . dead.
2. Web site: Othman . Nisreen . Zain . Hala . 2023-08-08 . Presidential decree naming Dr. Muhammad Amer Mardini as Minister of Education . 2023-08-08 . Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) . en-US.
3. Web site: Prime Minister's Office . Prime Minister's Office – Syrian Arab News Agency . Sana.sy . 2021-12-21.