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Ali Oath (2008)

Ali Youssef Eid ( Arabic علي عيد, DMG ʿAlī ʿĪd ; * July 14, 1940 in Tabbaneh near Tripoli , Greater Lebanon ; † December 25, 2015 in Syria ) was a Lebanese politician and leader of the Alawite community. He studied at the American University of Beirut in the field of Political Science and Public Administration .

In 1991 he was elected parliamentary candidate for the Tripoli constituency before taking up his seat as the first Alawite MP in the 1992 parliamentary elections in Lebanon . He was beaten in the 1996 , 2000, and 2005 elections.

Ali Eid was the founder of a political party in 1972, the Arab Democratic Party ( French le Parti démocrate arabe ).

During the civil war , Eid and his party were pro-Syrian . But in 2005 Eid again moved closer to Syria in order to be able to counter the increasing influence of Saad Hariri on the Alawite community in northern Lebanon .

He was married to Fatat Marouch and had with her the children Youssef, Alissar, Rifaat , Zoulficar (1978-1989), Noureddine, Mohsen, Lubna, Issa and Zoulficar (* 1990).

Individual evidence

  1. Ex-ADP chief Ali Eid dies in Syria at age of 75
  2. "Alawite from Tripoli, Ali Eid what appointed to the newly-established Alawite seat in 1991."
  3. "Former Tripoli MP Ali Eid, who ran in the 2000 elections on former Premier Omar Karami's list, said: 'The Allawite sect was never granted any privileges during Syria's 29-year presence. Their regime is secular, not sectarian like here, and thus for them it is not logical to distinguish any specific sect. " ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )