{"id":741604,"date":"2025-01-15T14:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=741604"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:39:52","slug":"who-is-sahar-baassiri-wife-of-lebanons-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/741604\/who-is-sahar-baassiri-wife-of-lebanons-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Sahar Baassiri, Wife of Lebanon&#8217;s New Prime Minister?"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>After breaking down everything you need to know about Lebanon&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/740873\/what-to-know-about-nehmat-aoun-lebanons-potential-first-lady\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">First Lady Nehmat Aoun<\/a>, we thought we&#8217;d do the same for our newly-elected Prime Minister Nawaf Salam&#8217;s wife, <strong>Sahar Baassiri<\/strong>. Here\u2019s what we could find out about her:<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"824\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-741613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri-600x378.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri-250x157.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/figure>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-education\">Education<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <p>She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from the American University of Beirut (AUB) before pursuing a master\u2019s in Journalism at Columbia University in New York.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-professional-career\">Professional Career<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-bassiri-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-741616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-bassiri-2.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-bassiri-2-600x347.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-bassiri-2-250x144.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>Baassiri worked for the leading Lebanese daily <em>An-Nahar<\/em> newspaper from 1981 to 2009. In 1993, she broke new ground as the first female Foreign Editor at a Lebanese daily and became the first woman in the Arab world to write a front-page column in a daily paper. From 1989 to 1991, she also served as the Beirut correspondent for United Press International (UPI).<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>She also served as Lebanon&#8217;s Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to UNESCO from 2018 until 2023.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-published-works\">Published Works<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-741619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/sahar-baassiri-3-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>In addition to her journalism career, Baassiri is the author of two books in Arabic: <em>Lebanon on Hold<\/em> and <em>The Wandering Arabs<\/em>, both published in 2009 by Dar An-Nahar<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-family-life\">Family Life<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <p><\/p>   <iframe title=\"Embedded Instagram Post\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"532\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BdiSA8Zhqeu\/embed\/\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; 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