Mifta al-Usta Umar () (1935–22 March 2010) was the General Secretary of

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's General People's Congress from 15 February 1984 to 7 October 1990. In this role, he was theoretically Libya's

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being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...

, though

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continued to exercise ultimate authority in Libya as "Leader and Guide of the Revolution". Umar graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at

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in Cairo in 1961. He worked as a physician at Massa Hospital in Al-Bayda and, in 1963, became General Manager of the hospital.

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