Prime Minister Abdullah bin Aref bin Abdul Ghani Al Yafi

He was born in Beirut in 1901, and studied at the Ottoman College and obtained a degree in law in 1922. He traveled to Paris and obtained a doctorate in law in 1925.
He was the first Lebanese to obtain a doctorate in law from the Sorbonne University. He was appointed as a president of the Syrian Arab Society in Paris in 1930 AD. He published Al-Seyassah newspaper in 1945 AD.

In 1938, he was appointed prime minister for the first time, after which he held the position of prime minister nine times until 1968.

King Faisal Al Saud receiving Prime Minister Abdullah Al Yafi