Kamel Hassan Maghur ( ar, كامل حسن المقهور; 1 January 1935 – 5 January 2002) was a
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
n lawyer, diplomat, and writer. He also held various cabinet posts.
Biography
Maghur was born in Dahra,
Tripoli
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,
Italian Libya
Libya ( it, Libia; ar, ليبيا, Lībyā al-Īṭālīya) was a colony of the Fascist Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica ...
in 1935.
He became a lawyer and subsequently a judge in Libya after completing law school in Cairo. He served in various diplomatic and international legal postings, including service as Libya's ambassador to the United Nations, Canada, France and China. In 1972 he became minister for petroleum and in 1984 served as
OPEC
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's chief. In 1986–1987, he was Libya's
minister for foreign affairs
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and in 1989 returned to private law practice in Tripoli. In the late 1990s he served as Libya's lawyer handling sanctions and charges associated with the
Lockerbie bombing
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.
Maghur published eight books of
short stories
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between the 1950s and 2000. He and his wife Suhir Elgheryani had seven children.
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20th-century novelists
20th-century Libyan writers
20th-century lawyers
1935 births
2002 deaths
Libyan judges
Libyan novelists
Libyan Arab Socialist Union politicians
Foreign ministers of Libya
Oil ministers of Libya
Secretaries General of OPEC
Permanent Representatives of Libya to the United Nations
Ambassadors of Libya to Canada
Ambassadors of Libya to China
Ambassadors of Libya to France