Ahmad Nami was born in 1873 in Beirut to an affluent family related to the Ottoman dynasty.
10 Facts About Ahmad Nami
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Ahmad Nami was of Turkish and Circassian origin, and his father Fakhri Bey was governor of Beirut during the Ottoman rule.
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Ahmad Nami married Ayse Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1910.
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Ahmad Nami moved back to Beirut in 1918 where he administered his family's enterprises.
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Ahmad Nami sought to secure their release but was threatened by imprisonment, causing him to replace his cabinet with three pro-French politicians.
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Ahmad Nami worked relentlessly against the establishment of a separate Lebanon and promoted the historical boundaries to preserve Syrian unity.
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Ahmad Nami sought to have a national army and requested entry into the League of Nations.
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Ahmad Nami was then considered a possible candidate for presidential office in 1940.
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Ahmad Nami retired from public life and moved to Lebanon in the 1940s.
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Ahmad Nami occasionally travelled to France as a visiting lecturer on history and politics at the Sorbonne University.