What is René Moawad?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] | name = René Moawad<Br/>{{Nobold|{{lang|ar|رينيه معوض}}}} | honorific-suffix = [[Order of Merit (Lebanon)|OM]], [[National Order of the Cedar|ONC]] | image = René Moawad - 1988 (cropped).jpg | caption = | office = 9th [[President of Lebanon]] | term_start = 5 November 1989 | term_end = 22 November 1989* | primeminister = [[Selim Hoss]] | predecessor = [[Selim Hoss]] {{small|(Acting)}} | successor = [[Selim Hoss]] {{small|(Acting)}} | birth_date = 17 April 1925 | birth_place = [[Zgharta]], [[Lebanon]] | death_date = 22 November 1989 (aged 64) | death_place = [[Beirut]], Lebanon | party = Independent | spouse = {{marriage|[[Nayla Moawad]]|1965|1989}}; (Until his death) | children = Rima Moawad (1966)<br>[[Michel Moawad]] (1972) | profession = [[Lawyer]], [[politician]] | alma_mater = [[Saint Joseph University]] | footnotes = <nowiki>*</nowiki>Moawad's term was disputed by [[Michel Aoun]]. }} '''René Moawad''' ({{lang-ar|رينيه معوض}}; 17 April 1925 – 22 November 1989) was a Lebanese politician. He was elected as the 13th [[President of Lebanon|President]] of the Lebanese Republic for 18 days in 1989, from the 5th to 22nd of November.<ref name=NYT>[https://nytimes.com/1989/11/23/world/lebanon-s-president-killed-as-bomb-rips-his-motorcade-peace-efforts-are-set-back.html Lebanon's president killed]</ref><ref name=LAT>[https://latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-23-mn-247-story.html New President of Lebanon killed]</ref> == Death == On November 22, 1989, seventeen days after being elected, Moawad, 64, and 23 others were killed as he is returning from Lebanon's Independence Day celebrations by a 250 kg car bomb was detonated next to his motorcade in West Beirut. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Moawad, Rene}} [[Category:1925 births]] [