Samir Shihabi

Samir al Shihabi (; 27 May 1925 – 25 August 2010) was a Palestine-born Saudi lawyer who served as President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1991 to 1992.

Early life and education Shihabi was born in Jerusalem on 27 May 1925. He did his undergraduate work at the American University of Cairo (AUC), and his graduate work at the Yale Law School and the University of Cambridge. He rose quickly to become Charge d'Affairs in Italy in 1959 and then served as Saudi Ambassador to Turkey from 1964 to 1973, Ambassador to Somalia for six months in 1974 and then assumed the post of Deputy Foreign Minister early in the tenure of Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal. He was then appointed Ambassador to Pakistan in 1979, before becoming Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1983. They met in 1946 at Cambridge University where he was studying.