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Salim Abd an-Nur

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Salim Abd an-Nur
Member of the Lebanon Parliament
for Chouf District
In office
1959–1964

Salim Abd an-Nur (Arabic: سالم عبد النور), a Lebanese Greek Catholic politician. He graduated from the Jesuit School in Beirut, after which he pursued a business career. His political life began in 1959, when he successfully ran for parliament in the by-poll in Chouf District after the killing on the incumbent parliamentarian Na'im Mghabghab. He was re-elected in 1960 as a Progressive Socialist Party candidate, but was defeated in 1964 and 1968.[1][2] He managed to retake his seat in the 1972 elections.

References

  1. ^ Zuwiyya, Jalal. The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 70-72
  2. ^ Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ, and Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah. Middle East Record, Volume 1. Tel Aviv: Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, 1960. p. 354