Shafik Wazzan

Shafik Al-Wazzan was a Lebanese politician who served as the 27th Prime [Minister of Lebanon] from 1980 until 1984. In December 1991, Wazzan was wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta Al Fouka as he was passing through in an armored car.

Biography

After political strife had left Lebanon without a government for 137 days, Wazzan was urged into office. He oversaw the withdrawal of Palestinian guerillas from Beirut in 1982.
Wazzan died in 1999 at the age of 74. He was survived by a son and a daughter.