Kazem el-Solh
1904 - 1976

1904


1930




1934


1935
Political activists set up a number of underground groups in the 1920s & 30s to fight for Arab independence from European powers. Kazem was a founding member of the Red Book secret society. He also established an Arab Nationalist Party in 1935.


1936

1943-47

1947 - 1960
He served as the Lebanese Ambassador to Iraq from 1947 to 1960, leaving Iraq a year after the coup ousting the Hashemite monarchy





1960 - 1964
In 1960-64 he was elected to parliament as an MP representing Zahle. He was also the head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee. He was nominated for the position of PM but as he was not a Nasserist he did not gain full support







1976
