Career in Idlib
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According to the biography published when the government was announced, Abdel Razzaq graduated in civil engineering from the University of Aleppo in 2011, worked in the engineering projects department of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from 2017 to 2019, and in 2024–2025 was director-general of Public Works and Roads in the Salvation Government, the administration that ran Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham-held Idlib. 1
He was named Minister of Public Works and Housing in Mohammed al-Bashir’s caretaker government in December 2024 and kept the post in the government announced on 29 March 2025. 1
Saudi-backed housing projects
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On 6 June 2026 he took part in laying the foundation stone of Abyat Hills, a project of about 2,000 homes on some 380,000 square metres in Qudsaya suburb, developed by the Saudi company Abyat with the General Housing Establishment. He said its memorandum of understanding had been signed under the patronage of President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Syrian-Saudi investment forum. 2 3
In August 2026 he presented Sham View, a 178-hectare development of more than 10,000 units between Qudsaya and Dummar by the Saudi company Thra and the General Housing Establishment, saying Syrian-Saudi cooperation had become a strategic partnership and that further projects would be announced across several governorates. 4
The expropriation dispute
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In late September 2026 residents of Qudsaya, Dummar, al-Bajaa and other towns protested at both sites, stopping machinery and demanding that construction halt until the status of land expropriated under the former government is settled. 5 6
His ministry answered late on 28 September that expropriation is a lawful tool for public-benefit projects, that an objection does not return ownership automatically, that land values at the time of expropriation cannot be compared directly with today’s prices, and that stopping machinery creates no legal title; it announced a joint complaints office with the Rural Damascus governorate. He discussed the residents’ demands with Rural Damascus governor Amer al-Sheikh on 28 September. 7 8
Verify-Sy later found that supportive comments under the ministry’s Facebook statement included 17 identical texts posted by 57 accounts, many of them recently created, in a pattern it says indicates coordination; it did not identify who was behind it. 9
