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Mustafa al-Shihabi

Prince Mustafa Al-Shihabi was a Syrian agronomist, politician, writer and the third elected director of Arab Academy of Damascus (1959–1968).

Biography
Al-Shihabi was born in 1893 in Hasbaya in Ottoman Syria, in what is today Lebanon. After getting his degree in agriculture from Paris, France in 1915, he initially resided in Istanbul while working for the Ministry of Agriculture of the Ottoman Government. During World War I, al-Shihabi joined the Arab Revolt in an attempt to free the Levant region from Ottoman Turkish control. ==Legacy==
Legacy
He exerted strong efforts for Arabization and modernizing the Arabic language by writing many comprehensive modern term indices of science and technology in Arabic. He also has many writings regarding Arab nationalism and the struggle against colonialism. Al-Shihabi was a critic of Turkification under the Ottoman Empire, viewing the 1908 Ottoman constitution as a blow to the status of Arabic. ==Citations==
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