Adel Safar

Adel Safar (Arabic: عادل سفر, romanized: ʿĀdil Safar, born 1953) is a Syrian politician and academic, who served as Prime Minister of Syria from 14 April 2011 to 23 June 2012.

His government was dissolved by Bashar al-Assad as a result of the Syrian parliamentary election in 2012.

Safar was born in the Damascus countryside in Syria to a Sunni Muslim family.

[2] In September 2003, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform in the cabinet of Muhammad Naji al-Otari.

On 29 March 2011, he resigned, along with the rest of the Cabinet, at the request of President Bashar al-Assad.