Kazem El-Solh served as Lebanese Ambassador in Baghdad from 1947 to 1960, leaving Iraq a year after the coup ousting the Hashemite monarchy in the country.

Prior to that, Kazem El-Solh was a staunch activist for Arab nationalism and the region's independence from foreign powers.

In 1936, El-Solh wrote a paper during the Coastal Conference, published later, and which was the precursor to Lebanon's National Pact, promoting Lebanese coexistence.

[1] In 1943-1947, he set up a law practice in downtown Beirut and in 1944-1960 he formed a political party called Al Nida, together with other intellectuals and his brother Takieddin el-Solh, who later became prime minister.

In 1930, he was the founding owner of the daily newspaper Al Nida (The Appeal) in Beirut, to which his brothers contributed articles.