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Nohad Machnouk was appointed the minister of interior and municipalities in Prime Minister Tamam Salam’s government and is a member of the “Future Bloc” coalition and the “Lebanon first” parliamentary alliance. He serves of the committees for Human Rights and Foreign Affairs. In 1988, he began working with the late Prime Minister Rafik El Hariri on the Solidaire Pr oject and, when Hariri was chosen to form the post-war government in 1992, Machnouk was appointed Senior Political and Media advisor for the prime minister. He served in this position until Syrian Intelligence forced him into exile given his anti-Syrian tendencies and took residence in Paris and Cairo for five years, returning to Beirut. In 2005, Machnouk returned to journalism, and began writing a column for Lebanese Daily Assafir, an article which wa s simultaneously published by the Emirati newspaper Al Bayan up till 2009. In 2010, he became a member of the Council of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Institution.

Lebanese politician (born 1955)

Nohad Machnouk (or Machnouq, Arabic: نهاد المشنوق; born 1955) is a Lebanese politician who was the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities and a Member of Parliament representing Beirut’s second district. He is a member of the “Future Bloc” coalition and serves on the Human Rights and Foreign Affairs parliamentary committees. He also serves on the ministerial committee charged with responding to the Syrian refugee crisis.^[1]

Early life

Machnouk was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1955, to a Sunni Muslim family that traces its roots to Hama, Syria.^[2] After starting his career as a journalist, El Machnouk was hired by Lebanese weekly magazine Annahar and wrote extensively on regional issues.

Political career

In 1983, he assumed his first political role as co-founder of Al Liqa’ al-Islami ("The Islamic Meeting"), a political gathering of prominent politicians and civil society leaders that called for an end to Syrian dominance of Lebanon and a halt to civil conflict.

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