Beirut MP Ammar Houri

Place & Date of birth: Born in Beirut in 1945.
Sect: Sunnite
Profession: Dental Surgeon
Educational background: Graduated with a degree in Dentistry from Cairo University in 1981.
Memberships: Member of the Beirut Arab University Council. Member of the 'Birr wal-Ihsan Endowment' Board of Trustees. President of Lebanese Chess Cofederaration  since 1998. Executive President of Asian Chess Confederation since 2002. President of the Beirut Dentists League (1995-2004. Deputy President of the Lebanese Dentists Association since 2003. Member of the Beirut Municipal Council since June 7, 1998.
Politcal Background: Elected  in 2005 deputy for Beirut one contitutency (Achrafieh, Mazraa and Saifi) on "Martyr Prime Minister Rafic Hariri's Beirut Decision List". Member of  Saad Hariri's 'Future Movement Parliamentay bloc'.
Hobbies: In addition to chess, Houri is a renown poet with three collections in Arabic : A cry from Afar (Sarkha Min Baeed), Poetical Solos (Taqaseem Shi'riyyah), which he published in Cairo toward the end of the Seventies, and Heart Beats (Nabadat Qalb), which he published in Beirut in 1995.
Publications: Houri is author of several books and a number of medical, constitutional and development studies.
Political Stand: Coinciding with that of the Future Movement, Houri's political agenda underscores the belief in free, independent and sovereign Lebanon, national unity, rejection of sectarianism, insistence on mutual coexistence and multipartism, separating politics from security, respecting the Constitution, encouraging the personal initiative, believing in the democratic system, the rule of law and modern legislation, and completing the process of reconstruction, development and economic reforms.
Current Political status: Beirut MP.