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Sabri al-Assali

Sabri al-Asali
صبري العسلي
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Prime Minister of Syria
In office
14 June 1956 – 1 February 1958
Preceded by Said al-Ghazzi
Succeeded by Nur al-Din Kahala
In office
13 February 1955 – 13 September 1955
Preceded by Faris al-Khoury
Succeeded by Said al-Ghazzi
In office
1 March 1954 – 19 June 1954
Preceded by Adib al-Shishakli
Succeeded by Said al-Ghazzi
Vice President of the United Arab Republic
In office
7 March 1958 – 7 October 1958
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Akram al-Hawrani
Personal details
Born 1903
Damascus, Ottoman Syria
Died 13 April 1976 (aged 72–73)
Damascus, Syria
Political party National Bloc
Religion Sunni Islam

Sabri al-Asali (Arabic: صبري العسلي‎‎; 1903 – 13 April 1976) was a Syrian politician and a three-time prime minister of Syria. He also served as vice-president of the United Arab Republic in 1958.

Al-Asali was born into a wealthy landowning family in Damascus. His uncle, Shukri al-Asali, was a prominent national leader, and a deputy in the Ottoman Parliament. Shukri al-Asali and a number of other nationalist leaders were executed in Damascus and Beirut by the Ottoman wāli, Jamal Pasha, on 6 May 1916.

Sabri al-Asali attended Damascus University and graduated with a law degree in 1925. That same year the Great Syrian Revolt against the French occupation erupted, and al-Asali participated in the uprising by helping smuggle arms and supplies to the Syrian fighters in the Ghouta area. Following the suppression of the revolt, al-Asali was exiled by the French authorities to Saudi Arabia where he became a special advisor to the Saudi King Abd al-Aziz, alongside another exiled Syrian leader, Shukri al-Quwatli.

Al-Asali and Quwatli returned to Syria in 1932 following a general amnesty. In 1933 al-Asali, along with a number of influential Arab thinkers, became a founding member and general-secretary of the League of National Action, with the aim of countering European colonial influence. Other founding members included the historian and professor Constantin Zureiq, the philosopher Zaki al-Arsuzi and the politician Muhsin al-Barazi. The League was very successful in Syria and Lebanon, and called for the abolition of the French and British mandates and the economic integration of Arab countries.


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