Political Parties (Lebanon)

Last modified: 2005-03-05 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Amal Party (El-Amal)
• Lebanese Communist Party
• Lebanese Phalanx (Kataeb or Phalanges Libanaises)
• National Liberal Party (Ahrar)
• Party of God (Hezbollah)
• Socialist Progressist Party (Hizb el-Takadumi el-Ishtiraki)
• South Lebanese Christians
• Syrian Social Nationalist Party
• Unidentified 'Saraia' Flag
• Aramaic Democratic Organisation

See also:

• Lebanon

The Christians had two parties, the Jamail [Gemayel] family one (Kataeb) and the Chamoun family one (Ahrar).

Dov Gutterman, 11 May 1999

In Lebanon the word party hasn't got the same meaning as in the West. Parties usually unite members of the same religion and have an army of their own.

Anonymous, 31 August 2001

Gaceta de Banderas, January 2002, contains images of Lebanese political parties, reported by Michel Lupant and drawn by Jorge Hurtado following his specifications. Jorge Hurtado kindly sent me the original vector and text files, and I exported the flag images to FOTW-standard GIFs. All credit to Jorge Hurtado, Michel Lupant and Gaceta de Banderas.

Michel Lupant says,

Pendant ma visite en avril 2001 j'ai découvert de nombreaux drapeaux: Parti Syrien National et Social, Parti Socialiste Progressiste (Druze), Parti Phalangiste, Hezbollah, Parti Com