{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{notability|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | occupation = Politician, poet | name = Musa Shuaib | birth_date = 1943 | death_date = 28 July 1980 | citizenship = [[Lebanon]] | birth_place = [[Charkiyeh]], [[Nabatiyeh District]] | image = موسى شعيب شعر.png | alma_mater = [[Lebanese University]] | party = [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region]] }}
'''Musa Muhammad Ali Shuaib''' ({{langx|ar|موسى شعيب}}; born 1943) was a Lebanese politician who was a member of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Lebanon]]. He was assassinated on 28 July 1980 in a car bomb attack at [[Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport|Beirut International Airport]].
== Early life and education == Shuaib was from a prominent southern [[Lebanese Shia Muslims|Shiite family]] from the [[Nabatieh District|Nabatiyeh district]] of [[Districts of Lebanon|Lebanon]] started his primary studies at Al Sharqiah Public School and then at Al-Duwair Public School.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=3 March 2020 |title=القصيدة التي قتلت صاحبها : الشاعر الشهيد موسى شعيب |url=https://pulpit.alwatanvoice.com/content/print/84505.html |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303201809/https://pulpit.alwatanvoice.com/content/print/84505.html |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After that, he moved to Beirut with his brother to continue his high school studies at the International College.<ref name=":0" />
In 1963, his financial circumstances forced him to stop his academic studies and worked as a teacher at Ansar Primary School – [[Nabatieh District|Nabatiyeh District]]. In 1964, after his success in the "Syrian Unified" certificate, he joined the [[Lebanese University|Lebanese University in Beirut]] and moved to study at the official [[Basta, Beirut|Basta]] Intermediate School to be close to the university.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=4 March 2016 |title=معجم البابطين لشعراء العربية في القرنين التاسع عشر و العشرين |url=http://almoajam.org/poet_details.php?id=7509 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210511/http://almoajam.org/poet_details.php?id=7509 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1968, he obtained a bachelor's degree in [[Arabic literature]] from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and obtained his master's degree in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tarhini |first=Hassan |title=مدونة جبل عاملة: الشاعر الثائر موسى شعيب |url=http://jabalamelah.blogspot.com:80/2014/09/blog-post_21.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625190707/http://jabalamelah.blogspot.com:80/2014/09/blog-post_21.html |archive-date=25 June 2018 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=مدونة جبل عاملة}}</ref>
Between 1969 and 1973, he moved as a teacher between schools of the [[Nabatieh Governorate|South]] and [[Beqaa Governorate|Bekaa]] governorates, until he was removed to [[Bsharri|Bcharre]] High School, after being referred to the Disciplinary Council, and then dismissed from his job as a teacher due to his participation in the strikes of teachers, workers, and tobacco farmers.<ref name=":1" />
== Politics == Shuaib joined the ranks of the [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] in 1963 and rose through the party ranks to become a member of the regional leadership of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Lebanon]], the Secretary of the Southern Branch, and the party's representative in the Political Council of the [[Lebanese National Movement]] .<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 March 2020 |title=The file of the martyr poet Musa Shuaib |url=https://cho3lat.ahlamontada.com/t504-topic |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303201811/https://cho3lat.ahlamontada.com/t504-topic |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 March 2020 |title=ذكريات وخواطر جنوبية : موسى شعيب حاضرا :: حزب طليعة لبنان العربي الإشتراكي |url=http://taleaalebanon.com/news.php?go=fullnews&newsid=1154 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303201814/http://taleaalebanon.com/news.php?go=fullnews&newsid=1154 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[File:موسى شعيب Musa Cheaib.jpg|left|thumb|180x180px|Sketch of Musa Shuaib]] Before that, he was active in various social and political fields, such as his support for the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Palestinian cause]] and [[Arab Unification]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 March 2020 |title=رابطة أدباء الشام – موسى شعيب .. شاعر الجذور الشعبية |url=http://www.odabasham.net/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9/41704-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89-%D8%B4%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A8--%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B0%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303201815/http://www.odabasham.net/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9/41704-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89-%D8%B4%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A8--%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B0%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
At the beginning of 1972, he announced his candidacy for the [[1972 Lebanese general election|parliamentary elections]], and alone won more than 3000 votes. In 1974, he was nominated again for the parliamentary by-election in the [[Nabatieh District|Nabatiyeh district]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 January 2005 |title=Liban Vote/1972/South/Nabatieh Casa |url=http://libanvote.com/lebanese9296/election1972/southl/NabatiehCasa.html |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050121233726/http://libanvote.com/lebanese9296/election1972/southl/NabatiehCasa.html |archive-date=21 January 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Literature == He began writing poetry at a young age specializing in the genre of [[Zajal]] poetry and began to emerge as a poet while he was studying at the [[Lebanese University]]. Contributed with a number of southern writers to founding the [[Southern Literary Forum]]. He was a member of the Lebanese Writers Union, and played a distinguished role in maintaining its union unity. He was also a founding member of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists and was a member of the Cultural Council of [[Southern Lebanon|South Lebanon]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tarhini |first=Hassan |title=Musa shuayb |url=http://jabalamelah.blogspot.com:80/2014/09/blog-post_21.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625190707/http://jabalamelah.blogspot.com:80/2014/09/blog-post_21.html |archive-date=25 June 2018 |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=مدونة جبل عاملة}}</ref>
== Death == Shuaib, along with three others, was assassinated on 28 July 1980 in a car bomb attack at [[Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport|Beirut International Airport]] Monday morning.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 March 2020 |title=ملف الشاعر الشهيد موسى شعيب |url=https://cho3lat.ahlamontada.com/t504-topic |access-date=2022-02-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303201811/https://cho3lat.ahlamontada.com/t504-topic |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Refugees |first=United Nations High Commissioner for |title=Refworld {{!}} Liban : information sur le parti Ba'ath irakien au Liban |url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab304c.html |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=Refworld |language=en}}</ref>
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