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'''Mohsen Dalloul''' (born 1933) is Lebanese journalist and politician. Being a member of the [[Progressive Socialist Party]] he served as the minister of agriculture and [[Ministry of National Defense (Lebanon)|minister of defense]] in the 1990s. He is a long-term member of the [[Parliament of Lebanon|Lebanese Parliament]] serving between 1991 and 2004.
'''Mohsen Dalloul''' (born 1933) is a Lebanese journalist and politician. Being a member of the [[Progressive Socialist Party]] he served as the minister of agriculture and [[Ministry of National Defense (Lebanon)|minister of defense]] in the 1990s. He is a long-term member of the [[Parliament of Lebanon|Lebanese Parliament]] serving between 1991 and 2004.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Dalloul was born in [[Aali en Nahri]], [[Zahlé District|Zahle district]], 1933.<ref name=abjj/> He hails from a [[Lebanese Shia Muslims|Shiite]] family.<ref name=elaph>{{cite news|title=محسن دلول عميد المخبرين السوريين في لبنان|work=Elaph|date=14 June 2005|url=https://elaph.com/Web/NewsPapers/2005/6/69350.html|access-date=12 July 2022|language=ar}}</ref> He attended Oriental College in [[Zahlé|Zahle]] where he completed his secondary education.<ref name=abjj/> He holds a degree in sociology.<ref name=abjj>{{cite web|title=محسن دلول|language=ar
Dalloul was born in [[Aali en Nahri]], [[Zahlé District|Zahle district]], 1933.<ref name=abjj/><ref name=wwho>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Lebanon|year=2007|publisher=Publitec Publications|edition=19th|url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945904.476|location=Beirut|isbn=978-3-598-07734-0|page=102|doi=10.1515/9783110945904.476}}</ref> He hails from a [[Lebanese Shia Muslims|Shiite]] family.<ref name=elaph>{{cite news
|publisher=Abjjad|access-date=12 July 2022|url=https://www.abjjad.com/author/2794029548/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84}}</ref>
|title=محسن دلول عميد المخبرين السوريين في لبنان|work=[[Elaph]]|url=https://elaph.com/Web/NewsPapers/2005/6/69350.html|date=14 June 2005|access-date=12 July 2022|language=ar}}</ref> He attended Oriental College in [[Zahlé]] where he completed his secondary education.<ref name=abjj/> He holds a degree in sociology.<ref name=abjj>{{cite web|url=https://www.abjjad.com/author/2794029548/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84|title=محسن دلول|language=ar|access-date=12 July 2022|publisher=Abjjad}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Following his graduation Dalloul worked as a teacher in the [[Beqaa Valley|Bekaa]] and Beirut districts.<ref name=abjj/> He then began to work for newspapers and magazine and joined the Editors’ Syndicate where he is still a member.<ref name=abjj/> In 1951 he became a member of the Progressive Socialist Party and held various positions including deputy chairman.<ref name=abjj/> In the 1980s he also served as a senior aide to [[Walid Jumblatt]], party's leader.<ref>{{cite news|author=Nora Boustany|title=U.S. Turns Down Lebanese Proposal for Redeploying Marines |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/01/07/us-turns-down-lebanese-proposal-for-redeploying-marines/c4ae0ece-4418-43e2-9f18-1093c503b573/|access-date=12 July 2022|work=The Washington Post|date=7 January 1984}}</ref>
Following his graduation Dalloul worked as a teacher in the [[Beqaa Valley|Bekaa]] and Beirut districts.<ref name=abjj/> He then began to work for newspapers and magazines and joined the Editors’ Syndicate where he is still a member.<ref name=abjj/> In 1951 he became a member of the Progressive Socialist Party and held various positions including deputy chairman.<ref name=abjj/> In the 1980s he also served as a senior aide to [[Walid Jumblatt]], party's leader.<ref>{{cite news|author=Nora Boustany|title=U.S. Turns Down Lebanese Proposal for Redeploying Marines |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/01/07/us-turns-down-lebanese-proposal-for-redeploying-marines/c4ae0ece-4418-43e2-9f18-1093c503b573/|access-date=12 July 2022|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=7 January 1984}}</ref>


Dalloul was first elected as a deputy representing the [[Baalbek-Hermel Governorate|Baalbek-Hermel district]] in the elections in 1991.<ref name=abjj/> In the [[1992 Lebanese general election|general elections]] in 1992 he was elected to the Parliament from the Zahle district.<ref>{{cite journal |author=A Nizar Hamzeh|title=Lebanon's Hizbullah: From Islamic Revolution to Parliamentary Accommodation|year=1993 |journal=Third World Quarterly|volume=14|issue=2|page=331|doi=10.1080/01436599308420327}}</ref> He was elected as a deputy from the [[Beqaa Governorate|Bekaa Governorate]] in the [[1996 Lebanese general election|elections]] held in 1996 and from the Zahle district in the [[2000 Lebanese general election|elections]] of 2000.<ref name=abjj/>
Dalloul was first elected as a deputy representing the [[Baalbek-Hermel Governorate|Baalbek-Hermel district]] in the elections in 1991.<ref name=abjj/> In the [[1992 Lebanese general election|general elections]] in 1992 he was elected to the Parliament from the Zahle district.<ref>{{cite journal |author=A. Nizar Hamzeh|title=Lebanon's Hizbullah: From Islamic Revolution to Parliamentary Accommodation|year=1993|journal=[[Third World Quarterly]]|volume=14|issue=2|page=331|doi=10.1080/01436599308420327}}</ref> He was elected as a deputy from the [[Beqaa Governorate|Bekaa Governorate]] in the [[1996 Lebanese general election|elections]] held in 1996 and from the Zahle district in the [[2000 Lebanese general election|elections]] of 2000.<ref name=abjj/>


Dalloul was appointed minister of agriculture to the cabinet led by [[Prime Minister of Lebanon|Prime Minister]] [[Selim Hoss]] and held the post from 25 November 1989 to 24 December 1990.<ref name=abjj/> He served in the same post in the cabinet of [[Omar Karami]] from 24 December 1990 to 16 May 1992 and in the cabinet headed by [[Rachid Solh|Rashid Solh]] between 16 May 1992 and 31 October 1992.<ref name=abjj/> Dalloul was named as the minister of defense on 31 October 1992 and served in the post in the [[First Cabinet of Rafic Hariri|first cabinet]] of [[Rafic Hariri|Rafiq Hariri]] until 25 May 1995.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ward Vloeberghs|year=2015|location=Leiden; Boston|title=Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon. Rafiq Hariri and the politics of sacred space in Beirut|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004307056|pages=381–382|volume=114
Dalloul was appointed minister of agriculture to the cabinet led by [[Prime Minister of Lebanon|Prime Minister]] [[Selim Hoss]] and held the post from 25 November 1989 to 24 December 1990.<ref name=abjj/> He served in the same post in the cabinet of [[Omar Karami]] from 24 December 1990 to 16 May 1992 and in the cabinet headed by [[Rachid Solh|Rashid Solh]] between 16 May 1992 and 31 October 1992.<ref name=abjj/> Dalloul was named as the minister of defense on 31 October 1992 and served in the post in the [[First Cabinet of Rafic Hariri|first cabinet]] of [[Rafic Hariri|Rafiq Hariri]] until 25 May 1995.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ward Vloeberghs|year=2015|location=Leiden; Boston|title=Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon. Rafiq Hariri and the politics of sacred space in Beirut|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004307056|pages=381–382|volume=114
|url=https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004307056_010}}</ref> He continued to serve in the same post in the second cabinet of Hariri from 11 July 1996 and in the next Hariri cabinet between 11 July 1996 and November 1998.<ref name=abjj/>
|doi=10.1163/9789004307056_010 |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004307056_010}}</ref> He continued to serve in the same post in the second cabinet of Hariri from 11 July 1996 and in the next Hariri cabinet between 11 July 1996 and November 1998.<ref name=abjj/>


===Views and alliances===
===Views and alliances===
Dalloul has had pro-Syrian and pro-Iran stance and close connections with the Syrian politicians. It was Syrian [[Vice President of Syria|vice president]] [[Abdul Halim Khaddam]] who helped Dalloul to assume significant cabinet posts.<ref name=elaph/> Dalloul's another close confidant was [[Hikmat al-Shihabi|Hikmat Shihabi]], a senior Syrian military officer.<ref name=elaph/> In 2010 Dalloul argued that Iran should possess [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear arms]] which should not be used only to maintain peace in the region, but also to have a dissuasive force against Israel.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Lebanese Defense Minister Mohsen Dalloul Says He Wants Iran to Have Nuclear Weapons
Dalloul has had pro-Syrian and pro-Iran stance and close connections with the Syrian politicians. It was Syrian [[Vice President of Syria|vice president]] [[Abdul Halim Khaddam]] who helped Dalloul to assume significant cabinet posts.<ref name=elaph/> Dalloul's another close confidant was [[Hikmat al-Shihabi|Hikmat Shihabi]], a senior Syrian military officer.<ref name=elaph/> During the [[Lebanese Civil War|civil war in Lebanon]] the [[Kataeb Party|Phalangist]] militia leader [[Bachir Gemayel|Bashir Gemayel]] and the Progressive Socialist Party leader [[Kamal Jumblatt]] secretly met at the Beirut apartment of Dalloul on 2 June 1976 while he was serving as the vice chairman of the party.<ref>{{cite book
|author=Fawwaz Traboulsi|title=A History of Modern Lebanon|year=2012|publisher=[[Pluto Press]]|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183p4f5
|url=https://www.memri.org/tv/former-lebanese-defense-minister-mohsen-dalloul-says-he-wants-iran-have-nuclear-weapons|access-date=12 July 2022|work=MEMRI|date=17 October 2010}}</ref>
|isbn=9780745332741|location=London|pages=205–206|edition=2nd|doi=10.2307/j.ctt183p4f5|jstor=j.ctt183p4f5 }}</ref> In 2010 Dalloul argued that Iran should possess [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear arms]] which should not be used only to maintain peace in the region, but also to have a dissuasive force against Israel.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Lebanese Defense Minister Mohsen Dalloul Says He Wants Iran to Have Nuclear Weapons|date=17 October 2010|url=https://www.memri.org/tv/former-lebanese-defense-minister-mohsen-dalloul-says-he-wants-iran-have-nuclear-weapons|access-date=12 July 2022|work=MEMRI}}</ref>


==Personal life and work==
==Personal life and work==
Dalloul married Siham Kanaan, and they have four children: Nizar, Ali, Ziyad and Rola.<ref name=abjj/> His eldest son, Nizar, is married to the daughter of [[Nazik Hariri]], second wife of Rafiq Hariri.<ref name=elaph/><ref>{{cite news|title=Nouvelles sociétés|url=https://www.lecommercedulevant.com/article/9139-nouvelles-socits|work=Le Commerce du levant|date=1 September 2005|language=fr}}</ref> Nizar and Ali Dalloul have business investments and are among the shareholders of LibanCell, Lebanese [[cell phone]] company.<ref name=meib>{{cite magazine|author=Gary C. Gambill
Dalloul married Siham Kanaan, and they have four children: Nizar, Ali, Ziyad and Rola.<ref name=abjj/><ref name=wwho/> His eldest son, Nizar, is married to the daughter of [[Nazik Hariri]], second wife of Rafiq Hariri.<ref name=elaph/><ref>{{cite news|title=Nouvelles sociétés|date=1 September 2005|url=https://www.lecommercedulevant.com/article/9139-nouvelles-socits|work=[[Le Commerce du Levant]]|language=fr}}</ref> Nizar and Ali Dalloul have business investments and were among the shareholders of LibanCell, Lebanese [[cell phone]] company, between 1994 and 2002.<ref name=meib>{{cite magazine|author=Gary C. Gambill|title=Lebanon's Cell Phone Scandals|access-date=12 July 2022|magazine=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin|volume=5|issue=1|url=https://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0301_l2.htm|date=January 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Fawwaz Traboulsi
|title=Social Classes and Political Power in Lebanon|location=Beirut|page=112|url=https://lb.boell.org/en/2014/05/04/social-classes-and-political-power-lebanon|publisher=[[Heinrich Böll Foundation]] - Middle East|access-date=18 May 2024|year=2014}}</ref> Dalloul's sons were granted the license for the cell phone operator when their father was serving as defense minister in the Hariri cabinets. In the late 1990s the shareholders of LibanCell included Telecom Finland, also known as [[Telia Company|Sonera]] (14%),<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|author=Rory Mcmillan|year=2001|title=Telecommunications Reform in the Eastern Mediterranean: Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria|journal=The Middle East and North Africa Legal Yearbook|volume=2001}}</ref> and Saudi Al Mabani (20%).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=James Exelby|date=August 1998|title=The Post-War Reconstruction of the Telecommunications Sector in Lebanon|journal=JIME Review|volume=August 1998}}</ref>
|title=Lebanon's Cell Phone Scandals|access-date=12 July 2022|magazine=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin|volume=5
|url=https://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0301_l2.htm|date=January 2003|issue=1}}</ref> Dalloul's sons were granted the license for the cell phone operator when their father was serving as defense minister in the Hariri cabinets.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Guilain Denoeux|author2=Robert Springborg|title=Hariri's Lebanon: Singapore of the Middle East or Sanaa of the Levant?|journal=Middle East Policy |date=October 1998|volume=6|issue=2|page=162
|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4967.1998.tb00317.x}}</ref> As of 2003 it was reported that the other shareholders of the company were the [[Al-Assad family|Al Assad family]] and the Lebanese businessmen, [[Najib Mikati|Najib]] and [[Taha Mikati]].<ref name=meib/>


Dalloul is the author of various books which were mostly published in the 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|title=دلول، محسن |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr97039707/|publisher=WorldCat Identities|access-date=12 July 2022}}</ref>
Mohsen Dalloul is the author of various books which were published in the 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|title=دلول، محسن|access-date=12 July 2022
|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr97039707/|publisher=WorldCat Identities}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 08:13, 9 December 2024

Mohsen Dalloul
Personal details
Born1933 (age 90–91)
Aali en Nahri, Lebanon
Political partyProgressive Socialist Party
Children4
OccupationJournalist

Mohsen Dalloul (born 1933) is a Lebanese journalist and politician. Being a member of the Progressive Socialist Party he served as the minister of agriculture and minister of defense in the 1990s. He is a long-term member of the Lebanese Parliament serving between 1991 and 2004.

Early life and education

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Dalloul was born in Aali en Nahri, Zahle district, 1933.[1][2] He hails from a Shiite family.[3] He attended Oriental College in Zahlé where he completed his secondary education.[1] He holds a degree in sociology.[1]

Career

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Following his graduation Dalloul worked as a teacher in the Bekaa and Beirut districts.[1] He then began to work for newspapers and magazines and joined the Editors’ Syndicate where he is still a member.[1] In 1951 he became a member of the Progressive Socialist Party and held various positions including deputy chairman.[1] In the 1980s he also served as a senior aide to Walid Jumblatt, party's leader.[4]

Dalloul was first elected as a deputy representing the Baalbek-Hermel district in the elections in 1991.[1] In the general elections in 1992 he was elected to the Parliament from the Zahle district.[5] He was elected as a deputy from the Bekaa Governorate in the elections held in 1996 and from the Zahle district in the elections of 2000.[1]

Dalloul was appointed minister of agriculture to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Selim Hoss and held the post from 25 November 1989 to 24 December 1990.[1] He served in the same post in the cabinet of Omar Karami from 24 December 1990 to 16 May 1992 and in the cabinet headed by Rashid Solh between 16 May 1992 and 31 October 1992.[1] Dalloul was named as the minister of defense on 31 October 1992 and served in the post in the first cabinet of Rafiq Hariri until 25 May 1995.[6] He continued to serve in the same post in the second cabinet of Hariri from 11 July 1996 and in the next Hariri cabinet between 11 July 1996 and November 1998.[1]

Views and alliances

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Dalloul has had pro-Syrian and pro-Iran stance and close connections with the Syrian politicians. It was Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam who helped Dalloul to assume significant cabinet posts.[3] Dalloul's another close confidant was Hikmat Shihabi, a senior Syrian military officer.[3] During the civil war in Lebanon the Phalangist militia leader Bashir Gemayel and the Progressive Socialist Party leader Kamal Jumblatt secretly met at the Beirut apartment of Dalloul on 2 June 1976 while he was serving as the vice chairman of the party.[7] In 2010 Dalloul argued that Iran should possess nuclear arms which should not be used only to maintain peace in the region, but also to have a dissuasive force against Israel.[8]

Personal life and work

[edit]

Dalloul married Siham Kanaan, and they have four children: Nizar, Ali, Ziyad and Rola.[1][2] His eldest son, Nizar, is married to the daughter of Nazik Hariri, second wife of Rafiq Hariri.[3][9] Nizar and Ali Dalloul have business investments and were among the shareholders of LibanCell, Lebanese cell phone company, between 1994 and 2002.[10][11] Dalloul's sons were granted the license for the cell phone operator when their father was serving as defense minister in the Hariri cabinets. In the late 1990s the shareholders of LibanCell included Telecom Finland, also known as Sonera (14%),[12] and Saudi Al Mabani (20%).[13]

Mohsen Dalloul is the author of various books which were published in the 2000s.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "محسن دلول" (in Arabic). Abjjad. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Who's Who in Lebanon (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 102. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.476. ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0.
  3. ^ a b c d "محسن دلول عميد المخبرين السوريين في لبنان". Elaph (in Arabic). 14 June 2005. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  4. ^ Nora Boustany (7 January 1984). "U.S. Turns Down Lebanese Proposal for Redeploying Marines". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  5. ^ A. Nizar Hamzeh (1993). "Lebanon's Hizbullah: From Islamic Revolution to Parliamentary Accommodation". Third World Quarterly. 14 (2): 331. doi:10.1080/01436599308420327.
  6. ^ Ward Vloeberghs (2015). Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon. Rafiq Hariri and the politics of sacred space in Beirut. Vol. 114. Leiden; Boston: Brill. pp. 381–382. doi:10.1163/9789004307056_010. ISBN 9789004307056.
  7. ^ Fawwaz Traboulsi (2012). A History of Modern Lebanon (2nd ed.). London: Pluto Press. pp. 205–206. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183p4f5. ISBN 9780745332741. JSTOR j.ctt183p4f5.
  8. ^ "Former Lebanese Defense Minister Mohsen Dalloul Says He Wants Iran to Have Nuclear Weapons". MEMRI. 17 October 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Nouvelles sociétés". Le Commerce du Levant (in French). 1 September 2005.
  10. ^ Gary C. Gambill (January 2003). "Lebanon's Cell Phone Scandals". Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  11. ^ Fawwaz Traboulsi (2014). "Social Classes and Political Power in Lebanon". Beirut: Heinrich Böll Foundation - Middle East. p. 112. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  12. ^ Rory Mcmillan (2001). "Telecommunications Reform in the Eastern Mediterranean: Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria". The Middle East and North Africa Legal Yearbook. 2001.
  13. ^ James Exelby (August 1998). "The Post-War Reconstruction of the Telecommunications Sector in Lebanon". JIME Review. August 1998.
  14. ^ "دلول، محسن". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
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