Mahmood Suleiman Maghribi ( ar, محمود سليمان المغربي) (29 November 1935 – 17 July 2009) was the Prime Minister of
Libya from 8 September 1969 to 16 January 1970.
Biography
Maghribi, who was born and raised in
Haifa before moving to
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
in 1948.
Maghribi worked within the ministry of education in
Qatar while studying law at
Damascus University before gaining his PhD in petroleum law at
George Washington University in the United States in 1966.
In his PhD thesis, he argued that it would be "unwise" for a country to nationalize oil production on its own.
From there he moved to Libya and initiated a strike among the country's petroleum workers in 1967 against foreign exploitation of Libyan resources, for which he was sentenced to four year imprisonment and stripped of his Libyan nationality.
He was the first prime minister of
Libya after the
revolution in 1969. He was
Minister of Treasury from 1969 to 1970. He later represented Libya at the
United Nations from 1970 before moving to London as Libyan ambassador to the UK. He left the embassy in October 1976, but remained in London working as a legal consultant. He retired to
Damascus
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in 2008.
. and his fondness of Syria and belief in pan-Arab unity remained strong throughout his life.
He died on 17 July 2009, survived by his wife, three daughters and a granddaughter.
Ministers
Minister of Defense Adam al-Hawaz
Minister of Interior Musa Ahmed
Minister of Finance, Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Mahmud Suleiman Maghribi
Minister of Labor and Affairs Anis Ahmed Shteiwi
Minister of Oil Anis Ahmed Shteiwi
Minister of Unity and Foreign Affairs Salah Busir
Minister of Education and National Guidance Mohamed al-Shetwi
References
1935 births
2009 deaths
Finance ministers of Libya
Libyan Arab nationalists
Libyan diplomats
Palestinian Arab nationalists
Palestinian emigrants to Libya
Permanent Representatives of Libya to the United Nations
Prime Ministers of Libya
Libyan emigrants to the United Kingdom
People from Haifa
George Washington University alumni
Damascus University alumni
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