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Author Nir, Omri

Title Nabih Berri and Lebanese politics / Omri Nir
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages)
Series The Middle East in focus
Middle East in focus series.
Contents Nabih Berri's early chapters -- From a marginal militia leader to a key man -- A fight for survival : leading Amal and the Shiites in the jungle of the civil war -- Serving as speaker : reaching national status, losing Shiite hegemony -- Berri's political stands
Summary Nabih Barri is a key figure in the Lebanese and Shi'ite politics for the last three decades. As the leader of the Shi'ite Amal movement since 1980 and as the Lebanese Speaker since 1992, Barri played a major role in all political events and processes in Lebanon between the early 1980's and today, including the current severe Lebanese crisis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Birrī, Nabīh
SUBJECT Birrī, Nabīh fast
Subject Amal (Movement)
SUBJECT Amal (Movement) fast
Subject Politicians -- Lebanon -- Biography
Shiites -- Political activity -- Lebanon
HISTORY -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
Politics and government
Politicians
Shiites -- Political activity
SUBJECT Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1975-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075642
Lebanon -- Politics and government -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98002763
Subject Lebanon
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230117631
0230117635
9781349289769
1349289760