Ministry of Telecommunications (Lebanon)

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The Ministry of Telecommunications is the government ministry responsible for telecommunications in Lebanon. [1]

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List of Telecommunications ministers

MinisterTerm of office
Camille Chamoun [lower-alpha 1] 25 Sep 194303 Jul 1944
Mohamad El Fadil 03 Jul 194409 Jan 1945
Nicolas Ghosn 09 Jan 194522 Aug 1945
Sami as-Solh [lower-alpha 2] 22 Aug 194509 Apr 1946
Philippe Takla 09 Apr 194622 May 1946
Youssef El Hrawi 22 May 194612 Dec 1946
Majid Arslan 14 Dec 194607 Jun 1947
07 Jun 194726 Jul 1948
Philippe Takla [lower-alpha 2] 26 Jul 194801 Oct 1949
Hussein Al Oweini 01 Oct 194906 Oct 1949
Jubran Nahas 06 Oct 194914 Feb 1951
Khalil Abou Jawdeh 14 Feb 195114 Feb 1951
Edward Noun 14 Feb 195107 Jun 1951
Mohamad Safieddine 07 Jun 195111 Feb 1952
Hussain El Abdallah 11 Feb 195209 Sep 1952
Moussa Mubarak 09 Sep 195214 Sep 1952
14 Sep 195218 Sep 1952
Nazem Akkari 18 Sep 195230 Sep 1952
Moussa Mubarak 30 Sep 195206 Feb 1953
Salim Haidar 06 Feb 195330 Apr 1953
Rashid Baydoun 30 Apr 195316 Aug 1953
Bashir El Aawar 16 Aug 195301 Mar 1954
Nicolas Salem 01 Mar 195416 Sep 1954
Salim Haidar 16 Sep 195409 Jul 1955
09 Jul 195519 Sep 1955
Kazem al-Khalil 19 Sep 195519 Mar 1956
Mohamad Sabra 19 Mar 195608 Jun 1956
Fouad Ghosn 08 Jun 195618 Nov 1956
Majid Arslan 18 Nov 195618 Aug 1957
18 Aug 195714 Mar 1958
Bashir El Uthman 14 Mar 195823 May 1958
Kazem al-Khalil [lower-alpha 2] 23 May 195824 Sep 1958
Fouad Najjar 24 Sep 195814 Oct 1958
Raymond Idah 14 Oct 195807 Oct 1959
Mourice Zouein 07 Oct 195914 May 1960
Fouad Najjar 14 May 196001 Aug 1960
Suleiman Frangieh 01 Aug 196020 May 1961
20 May 196131 Oct 1961
Rene Moawad 31 Oct 196120 Feb 1964
Mohamad Kneiio 20 Feb 196425 Sep 1964
25 Sep 196418 Nov 1964
Antoine Sehnaoui 18 Nov 196425 Jul 1965
Joseph Najjar 25 Jul 196509 Apr 1966
Kamal Jumblat 09 Apr 196606 Dec 1966
Micheal Idah 06 Dec 196608 Feb 1968
Rashid Baydoun 08 Feb 196811 Apr 1968
Joseph Najjar 11 Apr 196812 Oct 1968
Fouad Ghosn 12 Oct 196820 Oct 1968
Pierre Gemayel [lower-alpha 1] 20 Oct 196815 Jan 1969
Michel Murr 15 Jan 196925 Nov 1969
Fouad Ghosn 25 Nov 196913 Oct 1970
Jamil Kibbi 13 Oct 197027 May 1972
27 May 197225 Apr 1973
Tony Franjieh 25 Apr 197308 Jul 1973
08 Jul 197331 Oct 1974
31 Oct 197423 May 1975
Francois Jinadri 23 May 197501 Jul 1975
Camille Chamoun 01 Jul 197515 Sep 1976
Joseph Skaff 15 Sep 197609 Dec 1976
Farid Roufayil 12 Dec 197616 Jul 1979
Michel Murr 16 Jul 197925 Oct 1980
25 Oct 198008 Oct 1982
Georges Efram 08 Oct 198230 Apr 1984
Pierre Gemayel 30 Apr 198429 Aug 1984
Joseph El Hachem 29 Aug 198422 Sep 1988
Issam Abu Jamra [lower-alpha 2] 22 Sep 198825 Nov 1989
George Saadeh 25 Nov 198924 Dec 1990
24 Dec 199016 May 1992
16 May 199231 Oct 1992
Mohamad Ghazirs 31 Oct 199225 May 1995
AlFadl Chalak 25 May 199507 Nov 1996
Rafiq Hariri 07 Nov 199624 Dec 1998
Issam Naaman 24 Dec 199826 Oct 2000
Jean-Louis Cardahi 26 Oct 200017 Apr 2003
17 Apr 200326 Oct 2004
26 Oct 200419 Apr 2005
Alain Tabourian 19 Apr 200519 Jul 2005
Marwan Hamadé 19 Jul 200511 Jul 2008
Gebran Bassil 11 Jul 200809 Sep 2009
Charbel Nahas 09 Sep 200913 Jun 2011
Nicolas Sehnaoui 13 Jun 201115 Feb 2014
Boutros Harb 15 Feb 201418 Dec 2016
Jamal Jarrah 18 Dec 201631 Jan 2019
Mohammad Shoucair 31 Jan 201923 Jan 2020
Talal Hawat 23 Jan 202010 Sep 2021
Johnny Corm 10 Sep 2021Incumbent

Notes

  1. 1 2 Acted simultaneously as Minister of Interior and Municipalities .
  2. 1 2 3 4 Acted simultaneously as Minister of Economy and Trade .

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