Yassine Jaber
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Yassine Jaber | |
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| ياسين جابر | |
.jpg) Yassin Jaber in 2016 | |
| Member of the Lebanese Parliament | |
| Assumed office 1992 | |
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| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Nabatieh, Lebanon |
| Political party | Amal Movement |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut |
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Yassine Jaber (Arabic: ياسين جابر) is a Shia member of parliament in Lebanon. He has represented the Nabatiyeh district in South Lebanon since the first post-Lebanese Civil War election in 1992. Although nominally independent, he is affiliated with the Liberation and Development bloc led by Amal Movement head and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri.[1] In the May 2018 elections, Jaber won 7,920 preferential votes under a newly instituted, hybrid voting system that put him at the 71st place out of 515 total candidates across the country.[2]
Biography
[edit]Jaber was born in Nabatiyeh in 1951. After graduating with a BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut in 1973,[3] Jaber founded a financial company in the capitol and worked there until the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. Jaber spent 1976-1978 abroad, working mainly in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Britain and Los Angeles in the contracting and international trade sectors, and returned to Lebanon to launch real estate, tourism and hotel projects in Beirut. From 1981, he primarily resided in London where he was a member of the Board of Directors of the British-Lebanese Friendship Society and of the Advisory Council of the Arab Community in Britain.[4]
Following the conclusion of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, Jaber participated in the 1992 Parliamentary elections and secured a seat.
Appointed Minister of Economy from 1996 to 1998, he was part of the Rafik Hariri Government engaging in the reconstruction of Lebanon.[5][6] Jaber advocated for free trade with the United States and other countries.[7][8]
Considered a liberal politician, Jaber supports what he believes as human rights through equitable economic development in other countries such as South Africa [9][10][11]
In May 2022 Yassine Jaber said he won’t be running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for May 15, after 30 years in Parliament due to “an absence of any vision for recovering from the [economic] crisis” and for personal reasons.
See also
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[edit]- ^ "As U.S. targets Hezbollah, Lebanon lobbies against more sanctions". Reuters. 2017-06-02. Archived from the original on 2022-02-17. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ^ "Lebanese Elections".
- ^ "Official Biography".
- ^ "Yassine Jaber Biography".
- ^ "Ministry of Economy, State of Lebanon".
- ^ "Yassine Jaber". www.marcopolis.net.
- ^ "C-SPAN Interview".
- ^ "Subjective Well-being as a Public Policy and a Tool for Prevention of Future Civil War".
- ^ "UNICTAD Conference on South Africa".
- ^ "Institute of Social Justice".
- ^ "Gross National Development Proposal (GND) for the State of Lebanon".