Riyad Farid Hijab

Riyad Farid Hijab
رياض فريد حجاب
Hijab at the 2016 Munich Security Conference
Prime Minister of Syria
In office
23 June 2012 – 6 August 2012
PresidentBashar al-Assad
Preceded byAdel Safar
Succeeded byOmar Ibrahim Ghalawanji (Acting)
Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform
In office
14 April 2011 – 6 August 2012
Prime MinisterAdel Safar
Preceded byAdel Safar
Succeeded bySubhi Ahmad al-Abdullah
Governor of Latakia
In office
February 2011 – April 2011
Governor of Quneitra
In office
2008–2011
Secretary of the branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Deir ez-Zor
In office
2004–2008
Personal details
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Deir ez-Zor, Syria
Political partyBa'ath Party (until 7 August 2012)
Other political
affiliations
National Progressive Front (before 2012)

Riyad Farid Hijab (Arabic: رياض فريد حجاب, romanizedRiyāḍ Farīd Ḥijāb; born 1966) is a Syrian politician. He was Prime Minister of Syria from June to August 2012, serving under President Bashar al-Assad. From 2011 to 2012, he was Minister of Agriculture.

On 6 August 2012, the Syrian government released a statement saying that Hijab had been dismissed.[citation needed] Shortly thereafter, a man describing himself as Hijab's spokesman and several news organizations stated he had defected to the side of the Syrian opposition involved in the Syrian revolution.[1] Hijab managed to escape to Jordan with 45 members of his family, with the help of a large number of members of the Free Syrian Army.[2]

  1. ^ "Syrian Prime Minister defects". RTÉ. 6 August 2012. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  2. ^ قصة انشقاق حجاب وخروجه من سوريا [The story of Hijab's defection and his exit from Syria]. الجزيرة (in Arabic). 6 August 2012.