Hilal Al Atrash is a
Syrian engineer and politician who served as minister of local administration and environment from 2001 to 2009.
Career
Atrash is an engineer by training.
In November 2000, he was appointed governor of
the Quneitra province, which was his first governorship.
He was a member of
the Baath party, being part of the reformist wing.
He was appointed minister of local administration on 13 December 2000 to the cabinet headed by then prime minister
Mohammed Mustafa Mero, which was reshuffled after
Hafez Assad
Hafez al-Assad ', , (, 6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman and military officer who served as President of Syria from taking power in 1971 until his death in 2000. He was also Prime Minister of Syria from 1970 to 197 ...
's death.
Atrash's term ended in a cabinet reshuffle in April 2009 and he was succeeded by Tamer Al Hijeh.
Then he was named Syrian ambassador to
Libya
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.
References
20th-century Syrian engineers
21st-century Syrian engineers
21st-century Syrian politicians
Living people
Syrian engineers
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians
Syrian ministers of local administration
Ambassadors of Syria to Libya
Syrian Druze people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century diplomats
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