Early Life
Zuabi was born in 1935 in Khirbat Ghazalah, a village 75 miles south of Damascus in the Hauran region. He had two sons and a daughter. He was Speaker of the Parliament from 1981 to 1987. He was considered to be very close to then President Hafez Assad until his sudden fall from grace. He is said to have committed suicide on 21 May 2000, by shooting himself with a gun.
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