Conductor politician

Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party from 1977 until 2023

Led the Lebanese National Resistance Front, allying with Amal, the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and Marada Brigade during the 1983-1990 phase of Lebanese Civil War

Worked closely with Suleiman Frangieh to oppose Amine Gemayel's rule as president during the Mountain War, consolidating his control of the Chouf

After the civil war, he initially supported Syria but later led an anti-Assad stance during the start of the Syrian Civil War

Most recently leading his party, the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) in the 2022 Lebanese general election

The BBC describes him as "leader of Lebanon's most powerful Druze clan and heir to a leftist political dynasty based around the Progressive Socialist Party"

On January 12, 1982, he survived a car bomb explosion near his house in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, and in an Al Jazeera interview decades later, he said that Elie Hobeika was responsible for the attack and said that Hobeika told him in a meeting in Damascus that he wanted to kill him