Background
Maghribi, who was born and raised in Haifa before moving to Syria in 1948, was the first prime minister of Libya after the revolution in 1969.
Diplomat politician Prime Minister of Libya
Maghribi, who was born and raised in Haifa before moving to Syria in 1948, was the first prime minister of Libya after the revolution in 1969.
He later represented Libya at the United Nations from 1970 before moving to London as Libyan ambassador to the United Kingdom. He left the embassy in October 1976, but remained in London working as a legal consultant. He retired to Damascus in 2008. He co-founded "the Children of Palestine" in Syria in 1950.
Maghribi worked within the ministry of education in Qatar while studying Law at Damascus University before gaining his Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum law at George Washington University in the United States.
From there he moved to Libya and initiated a strike among the country’s petroleum workers in 1967 against foreign exploitation of Libyan resources, for which he was sentenced to four year imprisonment and stripped of his Libyan nationality.