Birth Date: | 1908 |
Birth Place: | Homs, Ottoman Syria |
Death Place: | Damascus, Syria |
Office: | Chairman of the Executive Council of the Northern Region of the United Arab Republic |
Primeminister: | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
Term Start: | 7 October 1958 |
Term End: | 20 September 1960 |
Predecessor: | Sabri al-Asali |
Successor: | Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj |
Nationality: | Syrian |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Nur al-Din Kahala (Arabic: نور الدين كحالة; also known as Nureddin Kahalle; 1908–1965) was a Syrian politician during the United Arab Republic (UAR) period (1958–1961). Prior to the UAR period, he served as a minor government bureaucrat.[1]
Kahala graduated from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.[2] Then he received engineering training in the United States.[3] He represented Syria in the first meeting of the United Nations held in San Francisco, USA, in March 1945.[2]
Kahala was initially appointed the President of the Northern Region (Syria) Executive Council, but on 19 July 1960, President Gamal Abdel Nasser appointed him as vice president in place of Akram al-Hawrani. He served alongside vice presidents Abdel Hakim Amer and Abdel Latif Boghdadi. On 20 September 1960 he was appointed the additional post of planning minister.[4]