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Abdul Halim Khaddam

1932 - 2020

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Abdul Halim Khaddam ( AHB-dəl hə-LEEM kə-DAM; Arabic: عبد الحليم خدام;‎ 15 September 1932 – 31 March 2020) was a Syrian politician who served as interim President of Syria in 2000 as well as the Vice President of Syria and the Syrian High Commissioner to Lebanon from 1984 to 2005. He was a long known loyalist of Hafez al-Assad under the Ba'athist regime in Syria after the Corrective Movement in 1970. He resigned from his position and left the country in 2005 in protest against certain policies of Hafez's son and successor, Bashar al-Assad. He accumulated substantial wealth while in office: a Credit Suisse account in his name, opened in 1994, had nearly 90 million Swiss francs in September 2003, per Suisse secrets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Halim Khaddam is the 2,535th most popular politician (up from 3,932nd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Syria (up from 55th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Syrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 2,535 out of 19,576. Before him are Empress Suiko, Yekuno Amlak, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, John VII Palaiologos, and Bernardo O'Higgins. After him are Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Artabanus II of Parthia, Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and Wen Jiabao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 41. Before him are Melvin Schwartz, Camilo Cienfuegos, Carlos Saura, Ellen Burstyn, Michel Legrand, and Frances E. Allen. After him are Zito, Anthony Perkins, Roy Scheider, Houari Boumédiène, Pat Morita, and Valentino. Among people deceased in 2020, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 30. Before him are Robert Hossein, Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, John Turner, Frances E. Allen, and Rob Rensenbrink. After him are Stanley Cohen, John Lewis, Diana Rigg, John le Carré, Bettina Heinen-Ayech, and Arthur Ashkin.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 30 out of 210. Before him are Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Antiochus II Theos (-286), Avidius Cassius (130), Zimri-Lim (-1800), Michel Aflaq (1910), and Ibn al-Nafis (1212). After him are Al-Maʿarri (973), Bassel al-Assad (1962), Amin al-Hafiz (1921), Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292), Yazid II (687), and Al-Walid II (706).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 17. Before him are Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (691), Muawiya II (661), Anisa Makhlouf (1930), Antiochus II Theos (-286), Zimri-Lim (-1800), and Michel Aflaq (1910). After him are Amin al-Hafiz (1921), Yazid II (687), Al-Walid II (706), Odaenathus (220), Nureddin al-Atassi (1929), and Yazid III (701).

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