Q:Facts: - president: hafez assad bashar assad - successor: ibrahim haddad - party: independent - primeminister: mahmoud zuabi mohammad mustafa mero - office: minister of oil and mineral reserves - predecessor: nader nabulsi - term end: 13 december 2001 - term start: 3 july 1996 - name: maher jamal Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of maher jamal .
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mohammad maher bin husni jamal is a syrian politician who served as oil minister of syria .