Hilal al-Atrash explained

Hilal Al Atrash
Office:	Minister of Local Administration
President:	Bashar Assad
Primeminister:	Mohammed Mustafa Mero
Successor:	Tamer Al Hijeh
Term Start:	December 2000
Term End:	April 2009
Party:	Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Nationality:	Syrian

Hilal Al Atrash is a Syrian engineer and politician who served as minister of local administration and environment from 2001 to 2009.

Career

Atrash is an engineer by training.^[1] In November 2000, he was appointed governor of the Quneitra province, which was his first governorship.^[2] He was a member of the Baath party, being part of the reformist wing.^[3] He was appointed minister of local administration on 13 December 2000 to the cabinet headed by then prime minister Mohammed Mustafa Mero, which was reshuffled after Hafez Assad's death.^{[4] [5]} Atrash's term ended in a cabinet reshuffle in April 2009 and he was succeeded by Tamer Al Hijeh.^[6] Then he was named Syrian ambassador to Libya.^[7]

Notes and References

1. News: Establishment of Urban Observatories in Syria. 2 March 2013. UN Habitat. https://web.archive.org/web/20160403153849/http://www.unhabitat.org.jo/en/inp/view.asp?ID=95. 3 April 2016. dead.
2. Intelligence Briefs: Syria. Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. November 2000. 2. 10. 2 March 2013.
3. Moubayed. Sami. The faint smell of jasmine. Al Ahram Weekly. 26 May – 1 June 2005. 744. 2 March 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130325171127/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/re3.htm. 25 March 2013. dmy-all.
4. News: The Government. 2 March 2013. Reuters. 2000.
5. News: New Syrian Government Formed; Veteran Guards Retain Defence and Foreign Portfolios. 9 February 2013. Albawaba. 14 December 2001.
6. News: Syrian Cabinet Reshuffle. 2 March 2013. Carnegie Endowment. 24 April 2009.
7. News: Syria send ships to evacuate nationals from Libya. 2 March 2013. Xinhua. 24 February 2011.