Abdurrahim El-Keib was appointed to the position by the country's National Transitional Council on the understanding that he would be replaced when the General National Congress was elected and took power.
20 Facts About Abdurrahim El-Keib
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Abdurrahim El-Keib left Libya in 1976 and joined the Libyan opposition, and over the years worked to help finance the movement.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib moved to Los Angeles, California, where he earned his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1976; he then moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where he earned his doctorate from North Carolina State University in 1984.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib joined the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1985 and became Professor in 1996.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib has lectured at the University of Tripoli, North Carolina State University, and the University of Alabama.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib supervised many MSc theses and PhD dissertations on "capacitive compensation planning and operation for primary distribution feeders" and was the recipient of several teaching and research awards.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib did research in the area of Electrical Power Engineering and is an author of numerous research papers.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib's research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Electric Power Research Institute, the United States Department of Energy, Southern Company Services, and Alabama Power Company.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib published numerous papers and research reports and a book chapter.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib served as a consultant to several utility companies including Alabama Power Company and Southern Company Services.
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In 2005, Abdurrahim El-Keib founded the Libyan International Company for Energy and Technology.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib was married to Mawia Kaddoura, who taught at The University of Alabama, American university of Sharjah, The Petroleum Institute, and Al Hosn University.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib's father served as a President of The University of Libya and later as a Senator during the reign of King Idris.
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On 1 November 2011, Abdurrahim El-Keib was named the interim Prime Minister of Libya after garnering 26 out of 51 votes from the Libyan National Transitional Council.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib collaborated well with the United Nations and the European Union on issues of interest to Libya during that time, and sought to collaborate with the Arab and Islamic world.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib's government called for and held a security conference that involved the ministers of defense and security in Libya's neighboring countries including Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, and Mali.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib addressed the African Union, the International Human Rights Organization, and the UN security Council.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib visited several important countries and received many foreign leaders in Tripoli to assure all that Libya was on the right track and making progress to hold national elections, Libya's first in almost fifty years including 42 years of dictatorship and moreover following a bloody revolution.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib's efforts were useful in obtaining what was needed to increase the country's oil production, which reached a level of 1.6 million barrels per day from about 200,000 bpd as well as the release of Libyan frozen funds.
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Abdurrahim El-Keib died from a heart attack on 21 April 2020 at the age of 70.