Khalil Khalil

Khalil Khalil (born 1941) is a Lebanese barrister and former diplomat who served as the ambassador of Lebanon in various countries from 1971 to 1994.

Khalil Khalil
Ambassador of Iran to Turkey
In office
1991–1994
Ambassador of Lebanon to the Netherland
In office
September 1985  1990
Ambassador of Lebanon to West Germany
In office
October 1978  July 1983
Ambassador of Lebanon to Iran
In office
September 1971  September 1978
Personal details
Born
Khalil Kazem Khalil

(1941-02-08) 8 February 1941
Tyre, Lebanon
Alma materAmerican University of Beirut

Early life and education

Khalil was born in Tyre on 8 February 1941.[1] He hails from a Shiite family.[2] His parents are Kazem Khalil, a politician, and Mouzayan Haidar.[1][3]

Khalil received a degree in law from the American University of Beirut.[1]

Career

Following his graduation Khalil worked as a barrister.[1] Then he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1] His first diplomatic post was the ambassador of Lebanon to Iran which he held between September 1971 and September 1978.[1][4] He was named as the ambassador of Lebanon to the Federal Republic of Germany in October 1978 and remained in office until July 1983.[1] He was the director general of legal affairs department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1983 and 1985.[1] He was the ambassador of Lebanon to the Netherlands from September 1985 to 1990.[1] Next he was appointed ambassador of Lebanon to Turkey in 1991 which he held until 1994.[1] He resigned from diplomatic post on 21 June 1996.[1]

Activities

During his diplomatic post in Iran Khalil closely worked with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[5] One of their collaborative activities was to curtail the popularity of Musa Al Sadr, a powerful Lebanese Shia figure.[5] Khalil's family was not on good terms with Musa Al Sadr due to the conflicts between Al Sadr and Nasser Khalil, brother of Khalil Khalil.[6] Khalil was also close to the Iranian politician Asadollah Alam.[6]

Khalil is among the signatories of a document protesting the sectarian approach of two Shia political groups, Amal and Hezbollah.[2] The document was issued on 9 June 2020.[2]

References

  1. Who's Who in Lebanon (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 196. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.476. ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0.
  2. Fady Noun (11 June 2020). "Shiite intellectuals: the 'culture of discord' of Hezbollah and Amal threaten national unity". Asian News. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  3. A. Former Iranian (2013). "Intelligence, Security and Peace". In Hesi Carmel (ed.). Intelligence for Peace: The Role of Intelligence in Times of Peace. London; New York: Routledge. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-135-26166-5.
  4. H. E. Chehabi; Hassan I. Mneimneh (2007). "Five Centuries of Lebanese–Iranian Encounters". In H. E. Chehabi (ed.). Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years. New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 26. ISBN 9781860645617.
  5. Abbas William Samii (January 1997). "The Shah's Lebanon Policy: The Role of SAVAK". Middle Eastern Studies. 33 (1): 84. doi:10.1080/00263209708701142. JSTOR 4283847.
  6. Arash Reisinezhad (2019). The Shah of Iran, the Iraqi Kurds, and the Lebanese Shia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 251–252. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89947-3. ISBN 978-3-319-89947-3. S2CID 187523435.
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