Aladdin Al-Droubi

Alaa al-Din Pasha bin Abdul Hamid Pasha al-Droubi (; 1870 – 21 August 1920) was a Syrian politician who served as Prime Minister of Syria for a month before his assassination in 1920.

Early life Al-Droubi was born in Homs, Ottoman Syria in a well-known Sunni family with rich traditions. Together with his two brothers he studied law and politics in Istanbul, and graduated from the Galata Institute as it was called at that time.

Career Al-Droubi first served as an ambassador for the Sublime Porte in the Balkans, before being appointed wali of the Yemen vilayet and later governor of Basra on 27 March 1913. After the Ottoman Empire's fall in 1918, al-Droubi aligned himself with the Hashemite rule in Damascus, in which he was appointed wali of Damascus and consultant to military governor Rida Pasha al-Rikabi. He then became head of the Consultative Bureau to King Faisal I, a position he held throughout Faisal's reign.

Before going into exile, Faisal appointed al-Droubi as prime minister on 26 July 1920. However, al-Droubi cooperated extensively with the French administration, adopting a pro-French stance. He significantly increased taxes to support the French army, confiscated weapons from civilians, and abolished the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stating that Syria's international relations were now under French control. His passive stance during the creation of an independent Lebanon further angered Syrians.