Issam Hussein Naaman (born April 2, 1942) is a Lebanese lawyer, politician, author, lecturer, and former Member of Parliament and Minister of Telecommunications.
Naaman was born April 2, 1942, in Sidon, Lebanon to a Druze family.
[1][2][note 1] He earned a BA in public administration in 1958, and an MA in political science in 1965, both from American University of Beirut (AUB).
In 1984, he completed a PhD in public law from Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California.
[6] According to the Anti-Defamation League, Naaman wrote in newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, published in London on 22 April 1998: Israel prospers and exists by right of the Holocaust lie and the Israeli government's policy of intentional exaggeration…the glue which holds the Jews together is the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust and the thousands of Jews who were destroyed in it ...[7] Naaman is the author of several books and political articles.