Rashid Karami
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Rashid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He is considered one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of the Lebanese Civil War, and served as p
Karami (left) with Egyptian (United Arab Republic) President Gamal Abdel Nasser, June 1959
Rashid Karami Square in the Southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
Salim Al-Huss
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Salim Ahmad al-Huss, also spelled Selim El-Hoss, was a Lebanese politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut. He was kno
Rashid Karami
…unable to end the war, however, and on 8 December 1976 he resigned. Elias Sarkis, who had succeeded Frangieh as president in September 1976, appointed Selim Hoss as the new prime minister. Karami had his militia in Tripoli. He was reconciled to his old enemy, Suleiman Frangieh, in the late 1970s, after Frangieh…
Al-Huss in 2005
Salim al-Huss (far right) next to Saddam Hussein in the Arab Summit, 1978