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Fuad Shemali

Syrian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5506886 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fuad Shemali (in Arabic فؤاد الشمالي) alternatively Fouad El Chemali (in Arabic فؤاد الشمالي) was born in 1936 to a Lebanese Christian-Maronite family. He studied law at the University of St. Joseph in Beirut. He adhered to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) in 1951, joined Fatah in the 1960s. He died from cancer in Geneva in August 1972.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fuad Shemali” as syrian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 1951, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Fuad, Shemali and Syrian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as syrian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5506886. VIAF identifies the subject as 5156917095454791937. The Library of Congress control number is no2019136123. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936, 1951 and 1972.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Fuad Shemali” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.