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Saturday, Jun 13, 2009

Sheikh Fathi Yakan 9/2/33—13/6/09

Sheikh Fathi Yakan passed away of natural causes Saturday 13 June 2009. As a lifelong scholar of Islamic studies, Dr Yakan was the Head of the Islamic Labor Front in Lebanon. He served thirty years as General Secretary of the Lebanese Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, until 1992 when he won a seat in the Lebanese parliament. A political activist and prolific author, Dr Yakan worked to establish cooperation amongst political parties in the region and sought to unite Sunnis and Shiites within an Islamic community. He described the Lebanese victory of 2006 as one for Lebanon and the whole nation, Sunnis before Shiites, “because the project of the resistance is not only Lebanese project but a global one."

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