Bassem Sabeh
Minister of Information
In office
November 1996  December 1998
Prime MinisterRafic Hariri
Personal details
Born
Bassem Ahmed Sabeh

(1951-01-01) 1 January 1951
Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, Lebanon
Alma materLebanese University
OccupationJournalist

Bassem Sabeh (born 1 January 1951) is a Lebanese journalist and politician. He served at the Parliament of Lebanon and was the editor-in-chief of As Safir daily between 1980 and 1990.

Early life and education

Sabeh was born in Bourj el-Barajneh on 1 January 1951.[1] He hailed from a Shia family.[2] He received a degree in journalism from the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1972.[1]

Career

Following his graduation Sabeh worked for different newspapers and became a member of the Press Syndicate in 1979.[1] He was its secretary from 1979 to 1996.[3] He was named as the editor-in-chief of As Safir in 1980 and served in the post until 1990.[1] He was appointed deputy-secretary of the Arab Journalists Federation in 1983, and his term ended in 1996.[3]

Sabeh was elected as a deputy from Baabda in 1992 and won his seat again in 1996.[1] He was appointed minister of information in November 1996 which he held until December 1998.[1] Sabeh was elected as a member of the Parliament on the list of the Future Movement in the 2005 elections.[4] The same year he was a candidate for the Speaker of the Parliament.[5] However, Nabih Berri won the election.[5] Sabeh also ran for a seat from Baabda in the 2009 elections, but he was not elected.[4]

Views

Sabeh is one of the critics of the Shia political party Hezbollah.[2] He was close to Rafic Hariri.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Who's Who in Lebanon (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. pp. 297–298. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.476. ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0.
  2. 1 2 "Lebanese anti-Hezbollah activist found dead in his car". Al Jazeera English. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  3. 1 2 Rachid El Hajjar (2021). Convergence of External and Internal Consociational Engineering: The case of Rafik Hariri between 1982 and 1989 (MA thesis). Lebanese American University. p. 59. doi:10.26756/th.2022.217. hdl:10725/13697.
  4. 1 2 Melani Cammett; Sukriti Issar (2010). "Bricks and Mortar Clientelism: Sectarianism and the Logics of Welfare Allocation in Lebanon". World Politics. 62 (3): 412–413. doi:10.1017/s0043887110000080. PMC 4029429. PMID 24860198.
  5. 1 2 John Kifner (29 June 2005). "Syria Ally Re-elected to Lebanon's No. 3 Post". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. James Haines-Young; Richard Hall (11 September 2018). "Saad Hariri calls for justice at Hague tribunal into father's assassination". The National. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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