Fares al-Khoury | |
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فارس الخوري | |
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19th Prime Minister of Syria | |
In office October 14, 1944 – October 1, 1945 | |
President | Shukri al-Quwatli |
Preceded by | Saadallah al-Jabiri |
Succeeded by | Saadallah al-Jabiri |
In office November 3, 1954 – February 13, 1955 | |
President | Hashim al-Atassi |
Preceded by | Said al-Ghazzi |
Succeeded by | Sabri al-Assali |
Speaker of the Parliament of Syria | |
In office November 21, 1938 – July 8, 1939 | |
Preceded by | Hashim al-Atassi |
Succeeded by | Fares al-Khoury |
In office August 17, 1943 – October 17, 1944 | |
Preceded by | Fares al-Khoury |
Succeeded by | Saadallah al-Jabiri |
In office September 16, 1945 – October 22, 1946 | |
Preceded by | Saadallah al-Jabiri |
Succeeded by | Fares al-Khoury |
In office September 27, 1947 – March 31, 1949 | |
Preceded by | Fares al-Khoury |
Succeeded by | Rushdi al-Kikhya |
1st Syrian Permanent Representative to the United Nations | |
In office 1946–1948 | |
Preceded by | office established |
Succeeded by | Farid Zeineddine |
Personal details | |
Born | citation needed] Kfeir, Hasbaya, Ottoman Syria (present day Lebanon) | November 20, 1877[
Died | January 2, 1962 Damascus, Syria | (aged 84)
Political party | National Bloc |
Spouse | Asma'a Gabriel Eid |
Relatives | Fayez al-Khoury, brother Suhail al-Khoury, son Colette Khoury, granddaughter |
Fares al-Khoury (Arabic: فارس الخوري, romanized: Fāris al-Khūrī) (November 20,[citation needed] 1877 – January 2, 1962[1]) was a Syrian statesman, minister, prime minister, speaker of parliament, and father of modern Syrian politics. Faris Khoury went on to become prime minister of Syria from October 14, 1944, to October 1, 1945, and from October 1954 to February 13, 1955. Fares Khoury's position as prime minister is, as of 2017, the highest political position a Syrian Christian has ever reached. Khoury's electoral popularity was due in part to his staunch secularist and nationalist policies. As a die-hard Syrian nationalist, Khoury never compromised on his principles and was resolutely against pan-Arabism and the ill-fated union between Syria and Egypt. Khoury opposed the short-lived union between Nasser's Egypt and republican Syria, the United Arab Republic. Through it all Faris Khoury served his country for almost 50 years. He was the grandfather of noted Syrian novelist Colette Khoury.
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