Ahmad Nami

Ahmed Nami
أحمد نامي
5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria
In office 28 April 1926 – 15 February 1928
Preceded by	Suphi Bereket
Succeeded by	Taj al-Din al-Hasani
Personal details
Born	Ahmed Nami 11 May 1879 Beirut, Ottoman Empire
Died	13 December 1962 (aged 83) Beirut, Lebanon
Political party	Independent

"Al-Damad" Ahmad Nami or "Damat" Ahmet Nami (11 May 1879 – 13 December 1962) was an Ottoman prince (damat), the 5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria (1926–28), and a lecturer of History and Politics.

Ahmad Nami was born on 11 May 1879 in Beirut to an affluent family related to the Ottoman dynasty. He was of Turkish and Circassian origin who could hardly speak the Arabic language. Nami studied in the Ottoman Military Academy and received military training in Paris. He married Hamide Ayşe Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1900. By 1909 the family were forced into exile in France when Nami's father-in-law, the Sultan, was overthrown from his throne by the Young Turks. Nami moved back to Beirut in 1918 where he administered his family’s enterprises.

On July 1920 the French officers in the region delegated Nami to form a government in Syria and gave him limited presidential powers. By April 26, 1926, Nami created his official cabinet and appointed Husni al-Barazi as Minister of Interior, Faris al-Khury as Minister of Education, and Lutfi al-Haffar as Minister of Commerce. However, in June 1926 the ministers all resigned from their posts to protest the French policies toward their nationalist movement; they were then arrested by the French High Commissioner of the Levant Henry de Jouvenel. Nami sought to secure their release but was threatened by imprisonment, causing him to replace his cabinet with three pro-French politicians.

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