Nur al-Din Kahala ( ar, نور الدين كحالة; also known as Nureddin Kahalle; 1908–1965) was a

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

n politician during the

United Arab Republic The United Arab Republic (UAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية المتحدة, al-Jumhūrīyah al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah) was a sovereign state in the Middle East from 1958 until 1971. It was initially a political union between E ...

(UAR) period (1958–1961). Prior to the UAR period, he served as a minor government bureaucrat.

Biography

Kahala graduated from

Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul Özel Amerikan Robert Lisesi or ), often shortened to Robert, or RC, is a highly selective, independent, co-educational high school in Turkey.The Turkish education system divides schools ...

in Istanbul, Turkey. Then he received engineering training in the

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. He represented Syria in the first meeting of the

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held in

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, USA, in March 1945. Kahala was initially appointed as the President of the Northern Region (Syria) Executive Council, but on 19 July 1960, President

Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-re ...

appointed him as vice president in place of

Akram al-Hawrani Akram Al-Hourani ( ar, أَكْرَم الْحَوْرَانِي, ʾAkram al-Ḥawrānī, also transcribed El-Hourani, Howrani or Hurani) (November 1911 – 24 February 1996), was a Syrian politician who played a prominent role during the democrat ...

. He served alongside vice presidents

Abdel Hakim Amer Mohamed Abdel Hakim Amer ( arz, محمد عبد الحكيم عامر, ; 11 December 1919 – 13 September 1967) was an Egyptian military officer and politician. Amer served in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and played a leading role in the m ...

and Abdel Latif Boghdadi. On 20 September 1960 he was appointed the additional post of planning minister.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahala, Nur al Din 1908 births 1965 deaths Vice-presidents of Egypt Vice presidents of Syria Syrian ministers of state planning Prime Ministers of Syria Syrian people of Turkish descent Syrian engineers 20th-century engineers People from Homs Robert College alumni