What is Elias Hrawi?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] | name = Elias Hrawi<br>الياس الهراوي | honorific-suffix = [[Order of Merit (Lebanon)|OM]], [[National Order of the Cedar|ONC]] | image = Elias Hraoui President.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Elias Hrawi's Presidential portrait, 1989 | office = 10th [[President of Lebanon]] | term_start = 24 November 1989 | term_end = 23 November 1998* | primeminister = [[Selim Hoss]]<br>[[Omar Karami]]<br>[[Rafic Hariri]] | predecessor = [[Selim Hoss]] {{small|(acting)}} | successor = [[Émile Lahoud]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1926|09|04}} | birth_place = [[Zahlé]], [[Greater Lebanon]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2006|07|07|1926|09|04}} | death_place = [[Beirut]], Lebanon | nationality = [[Lebanese nationality law|Lebanese]] | party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] | alma_mater = [[Saint Joseph University]] | profession = Businessman, lawyer, politician | footnotes = <nowiki>*</nowiki>Hrawi's term was disputed by [[Michel Aoun]] until 13 October 1990. }} '''Elias Hrawi''' ({{lang-ar|الياس الهراوي}}, 4 September 1926 – 7 July 2006) was a Lebanese politician. He was the [[President of Lebanon|President]] of [[Lebanon]] from 1989 to 1998.<ref name=Kifner>{{cite news|last=Kifner|first=John|title=Elias Hrawi; An Earthy Politician Who Makes Both Ends Meet|newspaper=The New York Times|page=4|date=25 November 1989|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/25/world/man-in-the-news-elias-hrawi-an-earthy-politician-who-makes-both-ends-meet.html|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref> Hrawi died of [[cancer]] at the American University Hospital in [[Beirut]] on 7 July 2006, aged 79.<ref name=tind>{{cite news|title=Elias Hrawi|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elias-hrawi-407489.html|access-date=15 July 2012|newspaper=The Independent|date=11 July 2006|archive-date=19 December 2013|archive-url=https:/