What is Tammam Salam?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Tammam Salam<br />{{small|{{lang|ar|تمّام سلام}}}} |image = Tammam Salam 2014-09-26.jpg |office = [[President of Lebanon]]<br />{{small|Acting}} |term_start = 25 May 2014 |term_end = 31 October 2016 |predecessor = [[Michel Suleiman]] |successor = [[Michel Aoun]] |office1 = 34th [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]] |president1 = [[Michel Suleiman]]<br />[[Michel Aoun]] |deputy1 = [[Samir Mouqbel]] |term_start1 = 15 February 2014 |term_end1 = 18 December 2016 |predecessor1 = [[Najib Mikati]] |successor1 = [[Saad Hariri]] |office2 = [[Ministry of Culture (Lebanon)|Minister of Culture]] |primeminister2 = [[Fouad Siniora]] |term_start2 = 11 July 2008 |term_end2 = 9 November 2009 |predecessor2 = [[Tarek Mitri]] |successor2 = [[Salim Wardeh]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|5|13|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Future Movement]] |spouse = [[Lama Salam|Lama Badreddine]] |children = 3 |alma_mater = [[Haigazian University]] }} '''Tammam Saeb Salam''' (تمام سلام born 1945) is a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] politician. He served as minister of culture from 2008 to 2009. He was tasked with forming a new government on 6 April 2013. Salam was one of the [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] politicians close to the pro-Syrian camp in Lebanon.<ref name=mou3aug>{{cite news|last=Moubayed|first=Sami|title=Nasrallah and the three Lebanons|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH03Ak01.html|accessdate=27 March 2013|newspaper=Asia Times Online|date=3 August 2006}}{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=reu5apr>{{cite news|title=Hezbollah bloc to back Salam for Lebanon premier|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/04/05/lebanon-government-hezbollah-salam-idINDEE93408U20130405|accessdate=5 April 2013|newspaper=Reuters|date=5 April 2013|archive-date=22 February 2014|archive-url=http