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Issam M. Fares (Arabic: عصام فارس‎; May 10, 1937) is a Lebanese politician and international investment businessman.

Fares was a member of the Lebanese Parliament and occupied the post of Deputy Prime Minister until February 28, 2005 when the government of Omar Karami submitted its resignation. He decided not to run for public office in the parliamentary elections of 2005.

The Fares Lecture Series, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, both at Tufts University, and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB) are named after him.

He operates the Houston, Texas based WEDGE Group.

External links

• Issam Fares home page
• Fares Foundation
• Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts
• Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB
• WEDGE Group corporate home page

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