Husni al-Barazi حسني البرازي | |
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| 15thPrime Minister of Syria | |
| In office 19 April 1942 – 10 January 1943 | |
| President | Taj al-Din al-Hasani |
| Preceded by | Hassan al-Hakim |
| Succeeded by | Jamil al-Ulshi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1895 Hama,Ottoman Syria |
| Died | 1975 (aged 80) Turkey |
Husni al-Barazi (Arabic:حسني البرازي; 1895–1975) was aSyrian politician who served asprime minister.[1]
Husni al-Barazi was born in the Syrian city ofHama into a prominent landowning family of Kurdish origin. He was educated inIstanbul where he attended classes with the Bedir Khan brothers.[2] Later he received a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne.
During theFrench Mandate, Al-Barazi joined the Syrian opposition to French rule, but in 1926 he was arrested for his opposition activities and was exiled toLebanon. Upon returning to Syria in 1928, Al-Barazi ran for parliamentary elections and was elected a Member of theSyrian Parliament.
He was appointed Minister of Culture from 1934 till 1936, then Governor ofAlexandretta (Iskenderun) from 1936 to 1938. In April 1942 he was appointedPrime Minister, but was removed from his position and isolated by the French authorities in January 1943, following which he again moved to Lebanon.
Al Barazi returned to Syria in 1946 and remained in his position as Member of Parliament during all the military coups that took place from the late forties until the mid fifties. During this period, he was accused of plotting against the state and was arrested several times. However, in 1948 he was Governor ofAleppo, and the following year became deputy to the military governor of Syria underHusni al-Za'im.[4] In Aleppo he co-founded the newspaperal-Nass, which was critical of Egypt's leaderGamal Abdel Nasser.
He went into final exile in 1954, when, while he was on a trip to Turkey, he was accused of plotting and conspiring against Syria, and was sentenced to death in absentia. In the late 1960s, al-Barazi was pardoned on account of his old age but never returned to Syria; he remained in exile between Lebanon and Turkey, where he died in 1975.
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