Takieddin el-Solh explained

Office:Prime Minister of Lebanon
Term Start:21 June 1973
Term End:31 October 1974
Predecessor:Amin al-Hafez
Successor:Rachid Solh
President:Suleiman Frangieh
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Date:1908
Birth Place:Sidon, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:27 November 1988(age 79–80)
Blank1:Religion
Data1:Sunni Islam
Death Place:Paris, France

Takieddin el-Solh (also Takieddin Solh, Takieddin as-Solh; Arabic: تقي الدين الصلح) (1908  - 27 November 1988) was a Lebanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1973 to 1974, and again briefly in 1980.

El-Solh was born in Sidon, Lebanon. A Sunni Muslim, he was a legislator representing the Beqaa Valley from 1957–60 and 1964–68. From 1964–65, he was Minister of the Interior in the Government of Hussein al-Oweini. In 1973, President Suleiman Frangieh named him Prime Minister and Minister for Finance.[1] He served as Prime Minister until 1974, when he was succeeded by Rachid Solh. In July 1980, President Elias Sarkis asked el-Solh to form a government, but he was unable to do so and resigned in October.

His wife was Fadwa Barazi El-Solh.

Takieddin was known for wearing the tarboush. He was faced with extensive objection by the Syrians and was told to leave Lebanon. He spent his last days in Paris, where he died aged 80.[2]

In art and culture

The mansion Takieddin el-Solh and Fadwa Barazi El-Solh had inhabited was the subject of an installation displaying photographs, newspapers, films, texts and drawings in the exhibition of Gregory Buchakjian, Abandoned Dwellings of Beirut, that took place at the Villa Empain in Brussels, 2019.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Former Ministers. December 18, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191218051220/http://www.finance.gov.lb/en-us/About/Minister/Pages/Former-Ministers.aspx. 2019-12-18.
  2. Web site: Takieddin Solh, Ex-Lebanese Premier, 80. November 30, 1988. New York Times. July 6, 2021.
  3. News: Cornwell . Tim . Houses of memory: Inside the abandoned buildings of Beirut . 4 July 2020 . Middle East Eye . 9 December 2019.