Naoum al-Labaki
نعوم اللبكي
Speaker of the Representative Council of Greater Lebanon
In office
15 October 1923  21 October 1924
Succeeded byEmile Edde
Personal details
Born1875
DiedOctober 21, 1924(1924-10-21) (aged 48–49)
NationalityLebanese

Naoum al-Labbaki (Arabic: نعوم اللبكي; 1875 – 21 October 1924) was a Lebanese journalist and former speaker of the Lebanese Parliament.[1]

He was born in Baabdat, in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate then immigrated to America, where he established the newspaper "Al-Manahir". He returned to Lebanon in 1908, and continued publishing the newspaper in Beirut in the village of Baabdat.[2] After the First World War, he was elected as a deputy in the Lebanese Representative Council and then as its speaker in 1923 and he continued in this position until his death on 21 October 1924.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "الجمهورية اللبنانية - مجلس النواب | لمحة تاريخية |". 2015-08-01. Archived from the original on 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  2. "موسوعة شبكة المعرفة الريفية". archive.is. 2012-12-24. Archived from the original on 2012-12-24. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
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