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Nur al-Din Kahala

Nur al-Din Kahala

Syrian politician (1908–1965)

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]

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Biography

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 as 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]

Bibliography

  • Amitai Etzioni (2001), Political Unification Revisited: On Building Supranational Communities, Lexington Books, ISBN 9780739102732

References

  1. [1]
    Etzioni, 2001, p. 127.
  2. [2]
    Ali Erken (2016). "The making of politics and trained intelligence in the Near East: Robert College of Istanbul". European Review of History. 23 (3): 562. doi:10.1080/13507486.2015.1131249. S2CID 147506101.
  3. [3]
    Etzioni, 2001, p. 127.
  4. [4]
    Yitzhak Oron, ed. (1960). Middle East Record 1960. Vol. 1. London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited. p. 500. Archived from the original on 19 November 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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