Al Rasi was born in 1925 and hailed from a Greek Orthodox family.[1] He worked as a physician in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 1960s to the early 1970s.[2] Upon his return to Lebanon he was elected to the Lebanese Parliament in 1972 and served there until 1994.[3] He was appointed minister of interior to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Rashid Karami on 13 April 1984.[4][5] Al Rasi was accompanying Rashid Karami in June 1987 while travelling to Beirut through a military helicopter.[6][7] Karami was killed while Al Rasi and others were wounded when the helicopter was exploded by a time bomb.[7]