What is Jean Obeid?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Jean Obeid |native_name = جان عبيد | image = Jean Obeid - 1988.jpg | imagesize = | office = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (Lebanon)|Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants]] | primeminister = [[Rafik Hariri]] | predecessor = [[Mahmoud Hammoud (politician)|Mahmoud Hammoud]] | successor = Mahmoud Hammoud | term_start = 17 April 2003 | term_end = 26 October 2004 | office2 = | primeminister2= | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|5|8|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Alma, Lebanon]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|02|08|1939|05|08|df=y}} | death_place = Lebanon | restingplace = Lebanon | party = | residence = | alma_mater = | spouse = | nationality = [[Lebanese nationality law|Lebanese]] | children = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Jean Obeid''' (8 May 1939{{spnd}}8 February 2021) was a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[journalist]] and [[politician]]. He was the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants (Lebanon)|Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants]] from 2003 to 2004. Obeid served as a member of [[Lebanese Parliament|the parliament]], representing [[Chouf District|Chouf]] from 1991 to 1992 and [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]] from 1992 to 2005.<ref name=wleaks18nov>{{cite news|title=Lebanon: Ex-foreign Minister Positions Himself as Centrist for Presidency|url=http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06BEIRUT3657|access-date=8 March 2013|work=Wikileaks|date=18 November 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615204108/http://cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06BEIRUT3657|archive-date=15 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Obeid was a candidate for [[President of Lebanon]] in the [[2014 Lebanese presidential election]].<ref name=MSN-obit>{{Cite web|title=MP Jean Obeid Dies after Covid Diagnosis|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mp-jean-obeid-dies-after-covid-diagnosis/ar-BB1dulIy|access-date=8 February 2021|work=MSN}}</ref> Obeid died on 8 February 2021 in [[T