Naum Labaki
Lebanese journalist
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| Intro | Lebanese journalist | |
| Places | Lebanon | |
| was | Journalist | |
| Work field | Journalism | |
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| Birth | 1875 | |
| Death | 1924 (aged 49 years) |
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Naoum al-Labbaki (Arabic: نعوم اللبكي; 1875 – 21 October 1924) was a Lebanese journalist and former speaker of the Lebanese Parliament.
He was born in Baabdat, in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate then immigrated to America, where he established the newspaper "Al-Manahir". He returned to Lebanon in 1908, and continued publishing the newspaper in Beirut in the village of Baabdat. After the First World War, he was elected as a deputy in the Lebanese Representative Council and then as its speaker in 1923 and he continued in this position until his death on 21 October 1924.