Ahmed Fouad Shennib | |
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| Education minister of Libya | |
| In office 19 March 1963 – 22 January 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Abul Qassim al-Allaghi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammed al-Mayyet |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1923 Hama, Syria |
| Died | January 7, 2007 (aged 83–84) Benghazi, Libya |
| Children | Hani Shennib |
Ahmed Fouad Shennib (Arabic: أحمد فؤاد شنيب) was a Libyan poet, politician and ambassador.
Born in Hama, Syria in 1923 of Libyan parents in exile. Shennib was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and served as cultural attache to UNESCO until 1959.[1] He then served as cultural attache in Washington DC (1959–1963), then Paris, France in 1963. He then returned to Libya in 1963 to serve as Minister of Education and Culture until 1964.
Ahmed Fouad Shennib died in January 2007 of pancreatic cancer in Benghazi, Libya.
- ^ 'Directeurs de Services Nationaux de relations Culturelles' Fevrier 1959, UNESCOunesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001274/127488FB.pdf