Wael Abou Faour | |
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وائل ابو فاعور | |
![]() Abou Faour in 2015 | |
Minister of Industry | |
In office 31 January 2019 –20 January 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Saad Hariri |
Preceded by | Hussein Hajj Hassan |
Succeeded by | Imad Hoballah |
Minister of Public Health | |
In office 15 February 2014 –18 December 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Tammam Salam |
Preceded by | Ali Hassan Khalil |
Succeeded by | Ghassan Hasbani |
Minister of Social Affairs | |
In office 13 June 2011 –15 February 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Najib Mikati |
Preceded by | Salim Sayegh |
Succeeded by | Rashid Derbass |
Personal details | |
Born | Khalwat al-Kfeir,Hasbaya District,Lebanon | 5 October 1972
Political party | Progressive Socialist Party |
Spouse | Zeina Hamedeh |
Children | Leen,Sara,Adham,Walid |
Alma mater | American University of Beirut |
Wael Abou Faour (born 1972) is a Lebanese politician who served as the Minister of Health.
Faour was born in 1974 into a Lebanese Druze family. [1] He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut where he received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. [2] Abou Faour is married to Zeina Hamedeh and has two daughters Sara And Leen. And two boy twins Adham and Walid.[ citation needed ]
Faour is a senior member of the Progressive Socialist Party and one of the close aides of party's leader Walid Jumblatt. [3] He was first elected deputy in 2005 as part of the Democratic Gathering bloc representing the Western Bekaa,Rashaya. [1] He served at the following parliamentary committees:agriculture and tourism,youth and sports and information technology. [1] On 11 July 2008,he was appointed state minister in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. [4] Faour was appointed minister of social affairs in the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati in July 2011. [5]
Wael Abou Faour revealed during a press conference on 11 November 2014 that many popular restaurants and food chains across Lebanon have been violating food safety rules,which brought about the start of a food safety campaign.
In 2020,Abu Faour sued Wassef El Harakeh,after the latter accused Abou Faour of smuggling cancer medicine to As-Suwayda,Syria during his tenure as Minister of Public Health,which caused shortage in the medicaments for the Lebanese citizens. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]