| Tayseer Qala Awwad | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 14 April 2011 – incumbent |
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| President | Bashar al-Assad |
| Prime Minister | Adel Safar |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Hammoud Younes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1943 (age 68–69) Damascus, Syria |
| Children | five |
| Alma mater | University of Damascus |
Judge Tayseer Qala Awwad (born 1943) is the current Minister of Justice of Syria.
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Awwad was born in Damascus in 1943 and earned a law degree from the University of Damascus School of Law in 1974. He is member of the Higher Judiciary Council.
He has been a Justice of the Peace, a military judge, the President of a military court, the President of the Judicial Inspection Department at the Ministry of Justice, and a member of the Supreme Judicial Council. He was Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into crimes committed in the shield.
Awwad is married with five children.