Farid Haykal Khazen

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Farid Haykal el Khazen فريد هيكل الخازن
Member of the Parliament of Lebanon
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 June 2018
Constituency	Kesserwan
In office 3 September 2000 – 20 June 2005
Constituency	Kesserwan
Minister of Tourism
In office 26 October 2004 – 19 February 2005
Prime Minister	Omar Karami
Personal details
Born	13 September 1970
Political party	Independent
Spouse(s)	Mona El Khazen
Children	3
Alma mater	Saint Joseph University

Farid Haykal Khazen (Arabic: فريد هيكل الخازن) born September 13, 1970, is a Lebanese politician.^[1] Heir to the Khazen political family, he was elected Maronite MP for Kesserwan District in 2000 and was one of the youngest members of the Lebanese Parliament. In October 2004, within the government of Omar Karami, he was appointed Minister of Tourism. He resigned from the government on 18 February 2005, four days after the assassination of Rafik Hariri, in protest against the government's inaction and sensing the scale of the popular movement that was looming.

He ultimately joined the opposition and participated in the June 2005 legislative elections on the March 14 Alliance force list, creating surprise by breaking his alliance and turning his back on former minister Fares Boueiz. Nevertheless, he failed to get elected, like all his running mates, against the list led by Michel Aoun.

9 years after the last parliamentary elections, Farid Haykal El Khazen was re-elected to the Lebanese parliament, receiving more than 9000 votes in Kesserwan-Ftouh and Byblos, in the parliamentary elections on May 6, 2018, after he joined forces with Chaker Salame (Kataeb party), Youssef Salameh, Gilberte Zouein and Yolande Khoury in Kesserwan-Ftouh, and Fares Souaid, Mustapha Husseini (Hussein Husseiny sibling) and Jean Hawat under the list of Aanna Al Karar. He subsequently joined the National Coalition Bloc alongside the Marada Movement and other independent MPs.^[2]

The National Bloc gathers MPs Farid Haykal el Khazen, Mostapha El Husseini, Tony Frangieh, Jihad el Samad, Istephan Doueihy, Fayez Ghosn, Faisal Karami.

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