Naoum Labaki

Naoum al-Labbaki (Arabic: نعوم اللبكي; 1875 – 21 October 1924) was a Lebanese journalist and former speaker of the Lebanese Parliament.^[1]

Naoum al-Labaki
نعوم اللبكي
Speaker of the Representative Council of Greater Lebanon
In office 15 October 1923 – 21 October 1924
Succeeded by	Emile Edde
Personal details
Born	1875
Died	October 21, 1924(1924-10-21) (aged 48–49)
Nationality	Lebanese

He was born in Baabdat, in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate then immigrated to America, where he established the newspaper "Al-Manahir". He returned to Lebanon in 1908, and continued publishing the newspaper in Beirut in the village of Baabdat.^[2] After the First World War, he was elected as a deputy in the Lebanese Representative Council and then as its speaker in 1923 and he continued in this position until his death on 21 October 1924.^[1]