Lebanese politician who was the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities and a Member of Parliament representing Beirut’s second district. He used to be member of the “Future Bloc” coalition and serves on the Human Rights and Foreign Affairs parliamentary committees.

Born in 1983, was appointed senior political advisor to Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. He served in this position until 1998, when he was forced into exile by the Syrian intelligence apparatus for his efforts to reduce Syrian tutelage of the country. Upon the withdrawal of Syrian troops in 2005, he resumed his journalistic career as a weekly columnist for Lebanese daily Assafir, before running for parliament in 2009. In 2014, he was named Minister of Interior and Municipalities in Tammam Salam’s national unity government.

On 22 August 2015, protesters took to the streets of Beirut demanding a resolution to the trash crisis, the protests led to a clash with the riot police who fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters and shot rubber bullets directly at them and real bullets in the air. Hundreds of people were wounded in the events.

After 2018 Election, though he got elected he decided to detach from Future movement. Eventually he was not appointed as Minster of Interior again.  

Recently, he has been under scrutiny since, as Minister of Interior at the time, he had been notified about a Seized ship carrying tons of ammonium nitrate docking on Beirut’s Port in 2013, without requesting authorities to take any exceptional measures.

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