Mahmud Sulayman al-Maghribi

Mahmood Suleiman Maghribi محمود سليمان المغربي
Prime Minister of Libya
In office 8 September 1969 – 16 January 1970
Preceded by	Wanis al-Qaddafi
Succeeded by	Muammar Gaddafi
Personal details
Born	1935 Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine
Died	17 July 2009

Mahmood Suleiman Maghribi(Arabic: محمود سليمان المغربي ‎) (1935 - 2009) was Prime Minister of Libya from 8 September 1969 to 16 January 1970. He died 17 July 2009.

Biography

Maghribi, who was born and raised in Haifa before moving to Syria in 1948, was the first prime minister of Libya after the revolution in 1969. He later represented Libya at the United Nations when the country was part of the UN Security Council in 1970 before moving to London as Libyan ambassador to the UK. He left the embassy in October 1976, but remained in London working as a legal consultant. He retired to Damascus in 2008.

He co-founded 'the Children of Palestine' in Syria in 1950. The organisation fought for and won the rights of Palestinians in Syria and his fondness of Syria and belief in a pan Arab unity remained strong throughout his life.

Maghribi worked within the ministry of education in Qatar while studying Law at Damascus University before gaining his PhD in Petroleum law at George Washington University in the United States. From there he moved to Libya and initiated a strike among the country’s petroleum workers in 1967 against foreign exploitation of Libyan resources, for which he was sentenced to four year imprisonment and stripped of his Libyan nationality.

He died on 17 July 2009, survived by his wife, three daughters and a granddaughter.