His Excellency Nohad El Machnouk

Nohad Machnouk was appointed the minister of interior and municipalities in Prime Minister Tamam Salam’s government and is a member of the “Future Bloc” coalition and the “Lebanon first” parliamentary alliance. He serves of the committees for Human Rights and Foreign Affairs. In 1988, he began working with the late Prime Minister Rafik El Hariri on the Solidaire Pr oject and, when Hariri was chosen to form the post-war government in 1992, Machnouk was appointed Senior Political and Media advisor for the prime minister. He served in this position until Syrian Intelligence forced him into exile given his anti-Syrian tendencies and took residence in Paris and Cairo for five years, returning to Beirut. In 2005, Machnouk returned to journalism, and began writing a column for Lebanese Daily Assafir, an article which wa s simultaneously published by the Emirati newspaper Al Bayan up till 2009. In 2010, he became a member of the Council of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Institution.