Shafik Wazzan | |
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شفيق الوزان | |
Prime Minister of Lebanon | |
In office 25 October 1980 – 30 April 1984 | |
President | Élias Sarkis Bachir Gemayel Amine Gemayel |
Preceded by | Takieddin el-Solh |
Succeeded by | Rashid Karami |
Personal details | |
Born | Beirut, Lebanon | 16 January 1925
Died | 8 July 1999 Beirut, Lebanon | (aged 74)
Political party | Independent |
Children | 2 |
Member State of the Arab League |
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Shafik Al-Wazzan (Arabic: شفيق الوزان, January 16, 1925 – July 8, 1999) was a Lebanese politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1980 until 1984. In December 1991, Wazzan was wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta Al Fouka (where he lived) as he was passing through in an armored car.[1]