Pierre Amine Gemayel, also spelled Jmayyel, Jemayyel or al-Jumayyil (Arabic: بيار الجميّل; 6 November 1905 – 29 August 1984), was a Lebanese political leader. A Maronite Catholic, he is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalangist Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected to the presidency of the republic in his lifetime.
He opposed the French Mandate over Lebanon in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and advocated an independent state, free from foreign control. He was known for his deft political maneuvering, which led him to take positions which were seen by supporters as pragmatic, but by opponents as contradictory, or even hypocritical. Although publicly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, he later changed his position due to Palestinian support of the Lebanese National Movement and its calls to end the National Pact and establish non-sectarian democracy.
Gemayel also had a career in football in the 1930s, captaining the Lebanon national team as a player. He also became the first Lebanese football referee to officiate matches internationally, and was the second president of the Lebanese Football Association, between 1935 and 1939.
Pierre Amine Gemayel, also spelled Jmayyel, Jemayyel or al-Jumayyil (Arabic: بيار الجميّل; 6 November 1905 – 29 August 1984), was a Lebanese political...
Amine PierreGemayel (Arabic: أمين بيار الجميٌل, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [ʔæmiːn ɪlʒmaj.jɪl]; born 22 January 1942) is a Lebanese politician who...
Pierre Amine Gemayel (Arabic: بيار أمين الجميّل; commonly known as PierreGemayel Jr., or simply PierreGemayel; 23 September 1972 – 21 November 2006)...
president-elect Bachir Gemayel. He is a member of the Kataeb party that was founded by his grandfather PierreGemayel. Nadim Gemayel was born in Bikfaya...
Phalanges, is a right-wing Christian political party in Lebanon founded by PierreGemayel in 1936. The party and its paramilitary wings played a major role in...
of the Lebanese Kataeb Party which was founded by his grandfather, PierreGemayel. He is a critic of the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah. In his...
Gemayel Amine Gemayel (born 1942), President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988, son of PierreGemayel Bachir Gemayel (1947–1982), son of PierreGemayel and Lebanese...
Lebanon Amine Gemayel, and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, and Samy Gemayel. Joyce Tyan married Amine Gemayel in 1967, becoming...
president of Lebanon, Camille Chamoun, and its main participants were PierreGemayel, the founder and leader of the then-largest political party in Lebanon...
Solange Gemayel (Arabic: صولانج الجميل; born 1949) is a Lebanese political figure and former First Lady of Lebanon. The widow of former President-elect...
participation in the creation of Al Salam Club in Achrafieh. William Hawi met PierreGemayel in sports meetings and the latter invited him in 1937 to join the Lebanese...
party in parliament. The organization was created in 1976 by Pierre and Bachir Gemayel, Camille Chamoun, and other party leaders during the Lebanese...
Hamat Air Base (Arabic: قاعدة حامات الجوية) is a Lebanese Air Force base in Hamat, Lebanon. It was built in the mid-1970s. The airport was however never...
pricing. The Canton was also served by a clandestine-built airstrip, the PierreGemayel International Airport, opened in 1976 at Hamat, north of Batroun, and...
leader of the Lebanese Forces. A grandson of the Kataeb Party founder PierreGemayel, Abou Nader became a Kataeb party activist and head of the elite Kataeb...
Formula One Pierre Gaspard (1834–1915), French mountain climber and guide Pierre Gaspard, Belgian physicist and professor PierreGemayel, politician and...
parliament. Notable members: PierreGemayel – Kataeb Party founder Bachir Gemayel – President-elect, 1982; son of Pierre Nadim Gemayel – Political activist;...
Lebanon (1976–1982) Bachir Gemayel, President of Lebanon 1982 Amine Gemayel, President of Lebanon (1982–1988) PierreGemayel, Founder of the Lebanese Kataeb...
to impinge. In 1951 an alliance was formed between Camille Chamoun, PierreGemayel, Raymond Eddé, Kamal Jumblatt, Phalange and Syrian National Party. On...
President PierreGemayel to hand over to the authorities the Phalangist KRF militiamen responsible for the death of the Palestinian driver. Gemayel publicly...
The attacks did not end in 2005. The next year, gunmen killed MP Pierre Amine Gemayel, and in 2007, Walid Eido was killed by a car bomb in Beirut. Most...
Gemayel became president, Frangieh along with Rashid Karami and Walid Jumblatt formed a Syrian-backed National Salvation Front to challenge Gemayel's...
al-muqātilīn) by the President of the Party, the za'im (political boss) PierreGemayel and William Hawi, a Lebanese-American glass industrialist, who led them...
during the Lebanese Civil War and one of Bashir Gemayel's close confidants. After the murder of Gemayel, he gained notoriety for his direct involvement...
was conducted. In 1936, the Maronite Phalange party was founded by PierreGemayel. World War II and the 1940s brought great change to Lebanon and the...
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