Sami al-Hinnawi
سامي الحناوي
Personal details
Born1898
Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria
Died31 October 1950(1950-10-31) (aged 51–52)
Beirut, Lebanon
Political partySyrian Social Nationalist Party
Military service
Rank Colonel

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi (Arabic: محمد سامي حلمي الحناوي, romanized: Muḥammad Sāmī Ḥilmī al-Ḥinnāwī; 1898 – 31 October 1950) was a Syrian politician and military officer.

Life

On December 19, 1949, Adib Shishakli carried out a coup d'état (the third that year), strengthening his dictatorship. On October 31, 1950, al-Hinnawi was murdered in Beirut, Lebanon, by Hersho al-Barazi, a cousin of Muhsin al-Barazi, the Prime Minister who had been overthrown and killed in Hinnawi's coup.[1]

References

  1. Moubayed, Sami M. (2000). Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship. University Press of America. p. 63. ISBN 9780761817444.

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