Walid Jumblatt
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Walid Kamal Jumblatt [وليد كمال جنبلاط]
Birthplace Moukhtara, Chouf District, Lebanon
Birth Date August 7, 1949
Ethnicity West Asian
Overview Lebanese Druze
Nationality Lebanese
Career Politician, journalist, military officer
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
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
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