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Mouhamad Jamal Jabr (Jamal Jabr) was born in Mafakar Al-Gharbi, Salamiyah, Syria in 1933 and died in Arusha, Tanzania in 1983. He was a Syrian military officer and diplomat.

He was married to Ghatwa Jabr (Ghada) and has five children.

Military career :
He finished his secondary education and joined the Military College in Homs 25/1/1954

Graduated with the rank of lieutenant on 11/1/1956

He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant on 11/1/1958, where he served in the Nabek region, then served in the Military Academy in Homs.

*During the period of  the United Arab Republic :
He served in the Unity Army in Egypt, and received the Best Company Commander Medal from President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and was promoted to the rank of captain on 1/1/1961.

In the year of separation, he returned to Damascus, Syria, then was transferred to the Ministry of Works 1/12/1961. He was appointed as a Director of the Public Works and Agrarian Reform in Ar Raqqah. Then he moved back to Salamiyah and assigned as  the principal of Qutaiba High School and remained there until the revolution of the eighth of March.

* Revolution of the eighth of March:
Jamal Jabr had a major role in the success of the revolution of the eighth of March as he was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council.

He returned to the army after the revolution of the eighth of March, where he was the commander of the Staff Battalion and was in charge of the task of guarding the revolution. He was also the head of the party organization in the Syrian Arab Army and director of the Officers Affairs Department in 1963, and he had a Staff course.

He served in the Syrian Front (the central sector), and its headquarters was in Kafr Nafakh - Sanabir.

He was promoted to the rank of major on 1/1/1964 while he was at the front in Kafr Nafakh.

He was assigned to the office of the Military Attache at the Syrian Embassy in Madrid, Spain, on 2/27/1966.

He was discharged from the army with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1967.

Honors he recived
-Anniversary of the establishment of the United Arab Republic in Egypt.

- The Medal of Victory in Egypt.

- Army Day Commemorative Medal.

- The Order of the Eighth of March.

- Medal of Fidelity, second degree.

- Medal of the Syrian Arab Army.

Diplomatic career :


After he was discharged from the army, he moved to the diplomatic corps, where he was appointed as a Consul-General in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967.

Then he was appointed as Consul-General

in São Paulo, Brazil, 1968-1969.

Then he was appointed as a Consul-General in Athens, Greece, 1970-1974, and then Chargé d'Affairs at the Syrian Embassy in Athens until 1975.

During this period, he founded the Syrian-Greek Friendship Association, and Jamal Jabr was its first president.

He returned to Syria and worked as Minister Plenipotentiary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Damascus from 1975-1979.

He was appointed Chargé d’Affairs at the Syrian Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1980, and remained there until his death in Arusha, Tanzania, .3/31/1983.

Death :
Jamal Jabr passed away while attending the African Regional Conference that the United Nations is conducting on the Palestinian issue in Arusha, Tanzania. Where Jamal Jabr was the head of the Syrian delegation there. After his death, his body was taken to his final resting place in Syria, where he was buried in his village, Al-Hardana, in the city of Salamiyah.

Legacy :
His death was reported in several newspapers :

- The Daily News in Tanzania on 1-2-3/ April /1983.

Al - Qabas Kuwaiti newspaper, issue 3909, dated April/ 1/1983.

Articles were written about him in several newspapers, including:

- Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa, written by Shafiq Al-Hout, entitled "Abu Khaled", dated April /4/1983.

- Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper, written by Shafiq al-Hout, entitled dated july /25/1984.

He was mentioned in several books, including:

- The book “Madarat (1): A Biography of Time from Childhood to 8th of March ”. Issued by the Ministry of Culture in Syria in 2005 by the writer Abdul Karim Al-Naem.

- The book "Persons from a Peaceful Memory", published by the Adiyat Salamiyah Association, Ghaleb, Al-Mir Ghalib.