Yusuf Zuayyin (; 25 January 1931 – 10 January 2016) was a
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 ...
n politician. A member of the
Ba'ath Party, he served as
Prime Minister of Syria in 1965 and again from 1966 to 1968. He was born in
Abu Kamal
Abu Kamal ( ar, أَبُو كَمَال, ʾAbū Kamāl) or Al-Bukamal ( ar, ٱلْبُوكَمَال, al-Būkamāl) is a city on the Euphrates river in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq. It is the administra ...
.
Zuayyin died after a long illness on 10 January 2016 in
Stockholm
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, Sweden. He was 84.
References
1931 births
2016 deaths
Ba'athist rulers
Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
Prime Ministers of Syria
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