Sami al-Hinnawi سامي الحناوي | |
Birth Date: | 1898 |
Birth Place: | Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria |
Death Place: | Beirut, Lebanon |
Rank: | Colonel |
Nationality: | Syrian |
Party: | Syrian Social Nationalist Party |
Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (Arabic: محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي|Muḥammad Sāmī Ḥilmī al-Ḥinnāwī; 1898 – 31 October 1950) was a Syrian politician and military officer.
On December 19, 1949, Adib Shishakli carried out a coup d'état (the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, al-Hinnawi was assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of Muhsin al-Barazi, the Prime Minister who had been overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup.[1]