1929 - 1998
Lebanese politician.
Inʿam Raad (also Raʿd) was born to a Greek Orthodox family in Ayn Zhalta. His father, Tawfiq, a graduate of the American University of Beirut (AUB), was a pharmacist who emigrated for a few years to Australia. In 1949 the younger Raad obtained his degree in political science at AUB. Until 1957 he taught Arabic, English, geography, and history at Broummana High School and other schools in Lebanon. In 1944 he had joined the Parti Populaire Syrien (later called the Syrian Social Nationalist Party) and was elected several times to its politburo. Between 1958 and 1961 he was chief editor of the party's publications, al-Bina and Sabah alKhayr. In 1961, following an attempted coup mounted by the party against the Lebanese government, Raad and his followers were condemned to death; Raad's sentence later was commuted to a life sentence. In 1969 President Charles Hilu announced an amnesty for the civilian party members implicated in the coup. In 1992 Raad was elected president of the party. He died in 1998.
— GEORGE E. IRANI
UPDATED BY MICHAEL R. FISCHBACH
