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Walid Jumblatt

Newly-elected Lebanese member of parliament Taymour Jumblatt, son of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and grandson of Kamal Jumblatt, arrives to attend the first session of the newly-elected assembly at its headquarters in the capital Beirut on May 31, 2022. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 10:33 pm
Lebanon’s main Druze party names new leader, son of longtime party chief
Sole contender Taymour Jumblatt, 41, to succeed father Walid Jumblatt, who headed Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) party for 45 years
By AFP
Women wave signs reading "leave" in Arabic and showing the faces of Lebanon's President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, during a protest outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on October 18, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
October 21, 2019, 10:40 pm
Lebanon’s decades-old political class under fire in protests
Country’s biggest demonstrations in years have focused much of their ire on Lebanese politicians, many of whom, and their relatives, have long called most of the shots
By AFP
Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon's Druze minority, speaks during a press conference after meeting Druze religious leadership in Beirut, Lebanon on June 12, 2015. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
April 30, 2019, 7:50 am
Lebanese Druze leader: Disputed Shebaa Farms not part of our country
Walid Jumblatt says tract of land on Israeli border is claimed by Lebanon as part of a coordinated ploy with Syria
By ToI Staff
Zachary Baumel. (JTA/Courtesy Miriam Baumel)
April 3, 2019, 11:03 pm
Terror group said Baumel’s body found in Damascus camp, more remains recovered
Commander of PFLP-GC terror group says Israeli intelligence coordinated operation to repatriate remains of Zachary Baumel, missing since 1982 Lebanon War, via Turkey
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Stray dogs. (JDMaddox/ iStockphoto, Getty Images)
January 4, 2018, 8:24 am
Video of poisoned stray dogs sparks outcry in Lebanon
President Michel Aoun posts photograph of himself with pet dog as interior minister orders inquiry
By AFP
Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon's minority Druze sect, speaks during a press conference after a meeting of the Druze community's religious leadership in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, June 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
November 26, 2017, 1:03 am
Lebanese Druze leader urges Saudis, Iranians to talk
Calling for dialogue between arch-rivals, Walid Jumblatt says modernization reforms in kingdom can’t work if war in Yemen continuing
By AP and ToI Staff
Taymur Jumblatt, son of Lebanese Druze political leader Walid Jumblatt, drinking coffee during a farewell lunch for an Israeli-Arab Druze delegation at Jumblatt's residence in Mukhtara, southeast of Beirut, July 24, 2010 (AFP PHOTO / Joseph EID)
March 19, 2017, 7:58 pm
‘Resist Israel,’ father tells new leader of Lebanon’s Druze
Appointing his son Taymur to head community, Walid Jumblatt urges him to ‘Carry high the keffiyeh of occupied Arab Palestine’
By AFP
A picture taken on January 19, 2017 shows the exterior of the Amir Shakib Arslan mosque designed by Lebanese architect Makram el-Kadi at the entrance of the Druze heartland village of Mukhtara in Lebanon's Chouf mountains. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
February 19, 2017, 2:50 pm
In Lebanon, Druze leader builds avant-garde mosque to preach coexistence
New house of worship re-imagined to promote ‘diversity’; despite practicing an offshoot of Shiite Islam, the Druze do not worship in mosques
By Sara Hussein
Michel Aoun speaks to journalists on October 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 28, 2016, 11:13 pm
Hezbollah ally set to become president of Lebanon
Michel Aoun’s likely election by parliament next week will boost the Shiite group, Assad and Iran, to Saudi detriment
By Zeina Karam
Members of Israel's Druze minority shout slogans and wave their flags during a march in the Druze village of Yarka, Israel, Sunday, June 14, 2015 (AP/Ariel Schalit)
June 28, 2015, 10:00 am
For Israel, a Druze dilemma
Ex-intelligence chief says Jerusalem may be forced to strike Syrian Islamists over the border to protect minority communities
By Elhanan Miller
A Syrian refugee woman pushes a stroller at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian border with Syria, on March 8, 2014. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
June 23, 2015, 8:42 pm
Jordan tiptoes around Syrian Druze crisis
Lebanese Druze leader appeals to king to help embattled minority, but spokesman says country is already strained by refugee influx
By ToI Staff
Fatah official Hatem Abdul Qader appears before a Jerusalem court, October 4, 2009 (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)
March 16, 2015, 6:17 pm
Fatah official urges Israeli Arabs to vote for Joint List
Breaking policy of non-intervention, former Palestinian minister implores citizens to fight ‘racism’ with the ballot
By Elhanan Miller
A Lebanese army soldier uses his binoculars as smoke from Israeli shelling covers the Lebanese town of Al-Majidiyah on the Lebanese border with Israel in the Wazzani area on January 28, 2015. Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack against an IDF convoy near the Lebanon border. Photo credit: AFP/ ALI DIA)
January 28, 2015, 6:32 pm
Lebanese rebuke Hezbollah for dragging country into clash
Leaders accuse Shiite group of serving Israel’s political needs after strike on military convoy
By Elhanan Miller
Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon's minority Druse sect, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, as he sits in his garden house, in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
June 8, 2014, 11:11 am
Lebanese Druze head urges Hezbollah to fight Israel, not rebels
Walid Jumblatt says that instead of tipping the Syrian civil war in Assad’s favor, Islamic group should turn guns on ‘the Israeli enemy’
By Bassam Mroue
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (photo credit: An-Najah University)
May 23, 2014, 4:16 pm
Rami Hamdallah to head new Palestinian government
Egypt preps for elections this week by deploying massive number of soldiers; Syria summons Druze politician for questioning
By Elhanan Miller
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