Kamal Joumblatt (1917-1977)
The Descendent of a political feudal family, the politician of a significant epoch, the thinker, the spiritual, the phenomenon.
Kamal Joumblatt was a man of many dimensions, an extraordinary leader and an unmatched politician and ideologue. The inheritor of the Druze leadership was among the first advocates of secularism. Despite his feudal background, Joumblatt is considered the father of the contemporary political Left in Lebanon. He was a forward-thinker and a leading supporter of alternative political alignments such as the Third Bloc, the Non-Alignment Movement, the Peace Movement and Arab cooperation facing foreign powers and defending the rights of Palestinian people. more...