Jamil Mardam Bey

Jamil Mardam Bey; Arab جميل مردم بك; (* 1894 in Damascus, Syria Vilayet, † March 30, 1960 in Cairo, Egypt) was an Ottoman Arab irregulars and Syrian politician who served twice as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, Interior Minister and Minister of Health. His wife was Safwat Pasha Sami Mardam Bey.

Life

Jamil Mardam was born in Damascus in 1894 in the then Ottoman Empire into an aristocratic Sunni Muslim family. He is descended from the Ottoman general, statesman and Grand Vizier Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha. Mardam studied at the School of Political Sciences in Paris in 1911 and was the founder of al - Fatat, the leading opposition party in Ottoman Syria.

In 1916 he worked for the armed uprising of Hussein ibn Ali against Ottoman rule with. He was sentenced to death, but he managed to escape and hide. In 1918 he returned to Syria and took part on the side of Faisal I of the delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. After the fall of Faisal I and the defeat of the Kingdom of Syria by the French authorities now Jamil Mardam Bey was sentenced on July 24, 1920 to death again. Again he managed to escape. He fled to Jerusalem to the British League of Nations mandate for Palestine and waited there until 1921 in the French League of Nations Mandate in Syria, an amnesty was declared for him.

In 1927, he was finally a co-founder of the National Bloc. After the establishment of the Syrian Republic in 1930 Jamil Mardam Bey was appointed on 21 December 1936 the Prime Minister. He remained so until 18 February 1939. Syria as independent from France in 1942 was, he was reappointed as Prime Minister on 29 December 1946. This time he did this, but only until 17 December 1948.