Chakib al-Jabiri

Chakib al-Jabiri was born in 1912 in Aleppo, into a great family of notables involved in the country's politics. Sent to study in Lebanon, then in Geneva and Germany, he returned a chemical engineer and doctor of physical sciences, with a mining prospecting licence. He campaigned in Europe against the French mandate alongside Chakib Arslan and his own uncle, and spoke in 1935 before an Arab youth congress held in Paris. Back home, he taught natural sciences and demonstrated with his pupils in 1941. A senior civil servant and then a diplomat, he died in 1996.

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• NovelنهمChakib al-Jabiri · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature