Ahmed Fouad Shennib
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Preceded byAbul Qassim al-Allaghi
Succeeded byMohammed al-Mayyet
Ahmed Fouad Shennib | |
|---|---|
 Shennib in 1964 | |
| Education minister of Libya | |
| In office 19 March 1963 – 22 January 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Abul Qassim al-Allaghi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammed al-Mayyet |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1923 |
| Died | January 7, 2007 (aged 83–84) |
| Children | Hani Shennib |
Ahmed Fouad Shennib (Arabic: أحمد فؤاد شنيب) was a Libyan poet, politician and ambassador.
Born in Hama, Syria, in 1923 of Libyan parents in exile. Shennib was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and served as cultural attache to UNESCO until 1959.[1] He then served as cultural attache in Washington, DC (1959–1963), then Paris, France, in 1963. He then returned to Libya in 1963 to serve as Minister of Education and Culture until 1964.
Ahmed Fouad Shennib died in January 2007 of pancreatic cancer in Benghazi, Libya.
