User:Saebtsalam/Tammam Salam

Tammam Salam (May 13, 1945) is a Lebanese political figure and philantropist.

Background
Salam is the son of Saeb Salam, the scion of a prominent Lebanese Sunni Muslim family who's political career spanned over six decades.

1982-2000:
Salam succeeded his father Saeb Salam as President of the Makassed Association, a charitable humanitarian association that aims at developing in 1982. Salam took the helm of Makassed seven years into the Lebanese civil war and at the time of Israel's invasion of Lebanon and its siege of Beirut. At a time when the state was incapable of sustaining the basic humanitarian, educational and healthcare needs of the Lebanese population, the Makassed, led by Salam, strived to