Salim Abd an-Nur ( ar, سالم عبد النور), a Lebanese

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politician. He graduated from the Jesuit School in

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, after which he pursued a business career. His political life began in 1959, when he successfully ran for parliament in the by-poll in

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after the killing on the incumbent parliamentarian Na'im Mghabghab. He was re-elected in 1960 as a Progressive Socialist Party candidate, but was defeated in

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and

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.Zuwiyya, Jalal.
The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968
'. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 70-72Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, and Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah.
Middle East Record, Volume 1
'. Tel Aviv: Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, 1960. p. 354 He managed to retake his seat in the 1972 elections.

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