Bashir al-Rabiti

Hafez al-Assad and Bashir al-Rabiti

Bashir Mohammad Massoud al-Rabiti (Arabic: بشير محمد مسعود الرابطي) is a Libyan politician.

He grew up in the Al-Zahara neighbourhood in Tripoli.[1] He served as chairman of the Students Union, which organized university students in Tripoli and Benghazi as well as high school students across Libya.[1]

Al-Rabiti served as the speaker of the Confederal National Assembly (the parliament of the Federation of Arab Republics).[2][3] He replaced fellow Libyan politician M. Saghir in the position.[4] The Confederal National Assembly met twice a year, holding its first session in March 1972 and its last in October 1975.[5]

Al-Rabiti fled Libya after 1977.[1] In April 1982 he took part in the founding of the Libyan Liberation Organization in Mogadishu, Somalia.[6] He served as the chairman of the Central Committee of the organization.[7]

He later served as chairman of the Libyan National Organization.[1][8]

Al-Rabiti was a key member of the Cooperation Bureau for Democratic and National Forces, an Egypt-based anti-Gaddafi coalition.[9]

As of 2016, al-Rabiti was the chairman of the Libyan National Party.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Alwatan Libya. الوطن الليبية تحاور بشير الرابطي معارض سياسي قديم ورئيس حزب الوطني الليبي : الفيدرالية لها خيوط مؤامرة لتقسيم ليبيا
  2. MEED Arab Report. Middle East Economic Digest Limited. 1976. p. 634.
  3. The Middle East (87–98 ed.). International Communications. 1982. p. 9.
  4. Maghreb, Machrek (61-66 ed.). La Documentation française. 1974. p. 54.
  5. Europa Publications Limited (1978). The Middle East and North Africa. 25. Europa Publications. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-905118-23-9.
  6. Mideast File. 1. Learned Information. 1982. p. 532.
  7. African defence journal (17-28 ed.). The Journal. 1982. p. 92.
  8. al-Ahrām al-iqtiṣādī. October 1985.
  9. Arthur S. Banks; Alan J. Day; Thomas C. Muller (1 February 2016). Political Handbook of the World 1998. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 551. ISBN 978-1-349-14951-3.
  10. Libya al-Akhbar. بشير الرابطي: ليبيا في خطر، ولا تحتمل المزيد

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