Lucien Dahdah

{{Short description|Lebanese academic, businessman and politician (1929–2003)}}

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|nationality = Lebanese

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Lucien Dahdah ({{Langx|ar|لوسيان دحداح}}) (15 August 1929 – 16 November 2003) was a Lebanese academic, businessman, media executive and politician, who served as foreign minister in 1975.

Early life and education

Dahdah was born on 15 August 1929. He was a graduate of American University of Beirut (AUB), Sorbonne University in Paris and Birmingham University.{{cite web|title=Local News|publisher=American University of Beirut

|url=http://www.aub.edu.lb/communications/media/localnews/Pages/dec05.aspx|access-date=10 April 2013}} He graduated from AUB in 1949.{{cite journal|title=In Memoriam|url=http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webmgate/winter04/in_memoriam.html|journal=Main Gate|date=Winter 2004|volume=1|issue=4|access-date=10 April 2013|archive-date=18 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118011206/http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webmgate/winter04/in_memoriam.html|url-status=dead}} He received a PhD from Sorbon and Birmingham universities.

Career

Dahdah worked as a university professor at his alma mater, AUB, teaching statistics and economics. Then he headed the board of directors of Intra Investment from 1970 to 1976 and from 1989 to 1993. He served as foreign minister in the interim cabinet led by Noureddine Rifai in 1975 under President Suleiman Frangieh.{{cite news|title=Lucien Dahdah, former FM, dies

|url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/0311/03111810DS.asp|access-date=10 April 2013|work=Lebanonwire|date=18 November 2003}} Dahdah was also advisor of Frangieh when the latter was serving as the president of Lebanon.{{cite book|author=Farid El Khazen|title=The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976|year=2000|isbn=978-0-674-08105-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQdheeeXQCgC&pg=PA417|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=417|location=Cambridge, MA}}

Dahdah was among the founding members of the Tele Orient channel. He also served as the director general of the channel.{{cite magazine|author=Daniel Da Cruz|title=T.V. In The M.E.|journal=Saudi Aramco World|volume=18|issue=5

|url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/196705/t.v.in.the.m.e.htm|date=September–October 1987}} In addition, he founded the Radio Monte-Carlo-Moyen-Orient. Later he became the director of Middle East Economic Digest.{{cite magazine

|author=Rushworth M. Kidder|title=Burnooses among the Bowlers; London's wealthy Arab|access-date=10 April 2013|magazine=The Christian Science Monitor|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0822/082244.html/(page)/2|date=22 August 1980|location=London}}