and the parliament speaker a Shia Muslim. Salam is set to lead the first government under President Joseph Aoun, who was elected last week after over two years of presidential vacancy caused by ...

and the parliamentary speaker a Shi’ite Muslim. Salam’s Sunni background satisfies this criterion, but his lack of support from Shi’ite lawmakers is a hurdle he will need to overcome to form ...

and the parliament speaker a Shia Muslim. Salam's backers view him as a figure capable of implementing much-needed reforms, contrasting with Mikati, who is seen as being under Hezbollah's influence.

and the parliamentary speaker a Shia Muslim. Salam's nomination to form a new government comes after a two-year political vacuum, during which Lebanon struggled with political divisions and ...

and the parliament speaker a Shia Muslim. Salam’s backers view the judge and former ambassador as an impartial figure able to carry out much-needed reforms, a contrast to Mikati regarded by ...

Salam had secured the backing of 78 of the MPs by Monday afternoon, with nine endorsing Mikati. Under Lebanon’s power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a ...

Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim militant and political organization, had opposed Salam’s candidacy in favor of incumbent Najib Mikati. Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammed Raad said the group “took a ...

Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, had been named to the prime minister post several times since the country's 2019 financial collapse. Hezbollah and its allies ...

the prime minister should be a Sunni Muslim and the house speaker should be a Shiite Muslim. Salam, a jurist who served as Lebanon's permanent representative to the U.N. from 2007 to 2017 ...

The parliament speaker, meanwhile, must be a Shi'ite Muslim. Salam presided over the court hearings in the ICJ called by South Africa against Israel last year, which alleged that Israel was ...

Islamic Forwards (Salam and Istisna) These are rare forms ... Retirees who want their investments to comply with the tenets of Islam face a dilemma in that fixed-income investments include riba ...