Nur al-Din Kahala

Nur al-Din Kahala (Arabic: نور الدين كحالة; also known as Nureddin Kahalle; ‎ 1908–1965) was a Syrian politician during the United Arab Republic (UAR) period (1958–1961). Prior to the UAR period, he served as a minor government bureaucrat.^[1]

Nur al-Din Kahala
نور الدين كحالة
Chairman of the Executive Council of the Northern Region of the United Arab Republic
In office 7 October 1958 – 20 September 1960
Prime Minister	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by	Sabri al-Asali
Succeeded by	Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj
Personal details
Born	1908 Homs, Ottoman Syria
Died	1965 (aged 56–57) Damascus, Syria

Biography

Kahala graduated from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.^[2] Then he received engineering training in the United States.^[3] He represented Syria in the first meeting of the United Nations held in San Francisco, USA, in March 1945.^[2]

Kahala was initially appointed the President of the Northern Region (Syria) Executive Council, but on 19 July 1960, President Gamal Abdel Nasser appointed him as vice president in place of Akram al-Hawrani. He served alongside vice presidents Abdel Hakim Amer and Abdel Latif Boghdadi. On 20 September 1960 he was appointed the additional post of planning minister.^[4]

Bibliography

• Amitai Etzioni (2001), Political Unification Revisited: On Building Supranational Communities, Lexington Books, ISBN 9780739102732