1. Cheikh Boutros Harb is a Lebanese politician who served at different cabinet posts including Minister of public works and transportation, Minister of education and Minister of Telecommunications.
13 Facts About Boutros Harb
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Cheikh Boutros was born into a prominent Maronite family in Tannourine, Lebanon on 3 August 1944.
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From 1990 to 1992 Boutros Harb returned to the education ministry in the cabinet of then Prime Minister Omar Karame.
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Boutros Harb was credited with helping negotiate the Taef Agreement, which brought the Lebanese civil war to an end by electing a power sharing agreement within the Lebanese Parliament, giving Christians and Muslims equal representation in Parliament by assigning seats to sects.
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Boutros Harb announced his candidacy for the Lebanese Presidency during the 1998 elections but withdrew his nomination the day the polls began.
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In 2004, Boutros Harb participated, with Nayla Moawad, Omar Karami, Salim Hoss, Hussein Husseini and Albert Mansour, in the creation of a National Face for Reform.
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In 2005, after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Boutros Harb joined the massive protests and demonstrations against the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and demanded that Syrian troops withdraw immediately.
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Boutros Harb is the lawyer of the Tueni family, and filed a lawsuit against two Syrian officers due to their alleged roles in Gebran Tueni's assassination in December 2005.
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Cheikh Boutros Harb is the elected head of the board of directors of the American University of Science and Technology.
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In 2007, Boutros Harb called for the integration of Hezbollah's military arm into the Lebanese Army.
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Boutros Harb said that Hassan Nasrallah cannot be allowed to appear as a hero to the region, despite his rising popularity as a result of a wave of sympathy.
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Boutros Harb commented that he had been warned by Lebanese security forces that they had found "bomb detonators in a lift" at his Beirut office.
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Boutros Harb is married to Marlene Joseph Tabet together have three children, Majd, Hala and Nour.