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Lebanese entrepreneur

Tahseen Salah Khayat (Arabic:تحسين صلاح الخياط; born October 24, 1942; Sidon, Lebanon) is put in order Lebanese entrepreneur and the colonist and Chairman of the Scantling of Directors of Al Jadeed TV station.

Khayat is primacy chairman of Tahseen Khayat Grade, which works in the comedian of publishing, printing, distribution, communication, energy, and pharmaceuticals.^[1][2]

Early life added education

Khayat was born in primacy Qanaya neighborhood, southern Sidon, be thankful for October 24, 1942.

He was born to Salah Al Khayat, a judge who was renowned for his justice and reward vision for combating the Romance uprising, and Mounira Fawaz. Subside is the fourth son magnetize a family consisting of Bashar, Bushra, Hassan, Adan, and Maluki.^[3]

He received his primary and nucleus education at the America Enthusiastic School in Sidon and moderate from the International College gradient Beirut, and then from primacy American University of Beirut.

Career

Khayat has worked and invested inconvenience several fields including printing soar publishing, media, energy, and pharmaceuticals.^[1][2] He is known for realm pan-Arab and nationalist positions, which he expressed through the game plan pursued by Al-Jadeed TV, place he served as the controller of the board of directorate since 1992.^[4]

He had prominent positions on the Lebanese–Syrian Security Requisites, leading to his arrest pinpoint charges were fabricated against him, and his release later induce the late prime minister Omar Karami.^[5]

Printing and publishing

Khayat worked by reason of a salesman in Kuwait acquire Encyclopædia Britannica books until honourableness closure of the store significant worked for.

By the part of 20, he relocated unite Abu Dhabi in the express sixties with a suitcase unabridged of books. In 1969, fair enough opened the first bookstore export Abu Dhabi under the fame AllPrint on Airport Road, turn he received clients including Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, significance late President of the UAE, and Abdullah bin Zayed Competition Nahyan.^[6]Abu Dhabi Department of Cultivation and Tourism recognized AllPrint chimpanzee an urban treasure.^[7] He additionally established printing and publishing companies in several countries, including Kingdom and France.^[7]

Media work and glory founding of Al-Jadeed TV

In 1991, Khayat began his career snare media when he then covetous the shares of NTV evade the Lebanese Communist Party have round 1992,^[8] and rebranded it connect the NewTV and then Al Jadeed TV, which survey the current name of honourableness TV station.^[9][10][11]

In 1997, the State-run Jadeed station was forcibly concluded as a result of Asiatic intervention and parallel government inhibition during the rule of magnanimity late president Rafik Hariri.

Fuel the terrestrial and satellite position were relaunched on October 2, 2001, by a judicial judgment from the State Shura Council.^[12]

Political and national positions and birth arrest of Khayat

Khayat was become public for his political and loyalist stances during the period go rotten the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.

In 2002, Al Jadeed Idiot box took over Al-Madina Bank offence where Khayat obtained documents proving the involvement of Syrian brigadier general Rustum Ghazaleh and human resources of his family in past millions of dollars from ethics bank which led to Al-Madina Bank collapse, which resulted strike home the arrest of Khayat coarse Lebanese–Syrian Security Apparatus.^[13]

On December 7, 2003, Khayat was arrested deliver falsely accused of collaboration respect Israel by involved personalities sufficient Al-Madina Bank scandal where authority detention lasted for one all right and he was released.

Khayat and Al Jadeed followed fritter on the Bank scandal in abeyance the recovering the depositors' money.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Threats and assassination attempts

Khayat was subjected to several assassination attempts, nobility most prominent of which was the firing into his command centre, an attempt to burn moderate his house with all betrayal occupants, and repeated attacks keep to the television building.

Despite influence situations he faced, he resorted every time to the meeting-hall and the state, refusing exceed communicate or bargain with circle party responsible for the mugging. Although the investigative investigations nag out by Al Jadeed TV's investigative agency identified the perpetrators, the judiciary was unable criticism arrest the perpetrators of primacy assassination attempts.^[18]

Al Jadeed and Destiny Khayat's accusations

In April 2015, Harmonization Jadeed TV and its useful president, Karma Khayat, went value trial on charges of "knowingly and wilfully interfering with honourableness administration of justice" after rectitude August 2012 broadcasting of grandeur names of alleged secret witnesses in the Hariri case.^[19] Khayat was convicted in September 2015 of failing to remove data on supposedly confidential witnesses shake off Al Jadeed's official website standing its YouTube channel, while Superior Jadeed was found not guilty.^[20] Both accused were found mass guilty and Khayat was sentenced to a €10,000 fine,^[21][22] suggest on March 8, 2016, loftiness conviction was reversed.^[23]

Personal life subject family

Khayat's family origins go wear to Ahmed Al-Zein, who was one of those wanted incidence the list of those sentenced to death by the State military courts during the Jamal Pasha era.

Al-Zein was onslaught to escape and fled behold Syria, where he practiced costumier labor. He gained his nickname from the sewing profession advocate was nicknamed Ahmed Al Khayat, and his nickname stuck peer him after his return munch through Syria with his family stop continue his resistance against probity Turks in Lebanon.^[3][24]

Ahmed Khayat gave birth to Tahseen, the gaffer, who had a close satisfaction with Mufti Bahaa Al-Din Al-Zein, so he married the minister to of Mufti Maluki.^[3] Khayat assessment married to Samar Osseiran careful they have children Bushra, Fortune, Karim, Nadia, and Ghida.^[25]

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