Hassan Diab

prime minister of Lebanon

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2020 Beirut explosion

  • Aftermath of the explosion
    In 2020 Beirut explosion

    On August 5 Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared a state of emergency; by the next week, Diab and his entire cabinet had resigned their positions amid intense criticism.

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association with Aoun

  • Michel Aoun
    In Michel Aoun: Presidency

    …resignation of Hariri, Aoun tasked Hassan Diab, an academic and former education minister (2011–14), with forming a government. Although Diab boasted that the cabinet comprised technocrats and political outsiders, he failed to stop Lebanon’s plummet into chaos. Over the next several months, the government defaulted on a foreign debt payment…

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