Joyce Gemayel (Arabic: جويس الجميل) (born Joyce Tyan, Arabic: جويس تيان) is the former First Lady of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988, wife of former President of Lebanon Amine Gemayel, and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, and Samy Gemayel. Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said. A Lebanon under Bashir Gemayel, strategically allied with Israel and the United States, would upset the regional balance of power. Powerful Syria to the north and east had occupied the Bekaa Tense Lebanon Prepares for Gemayel's Funeral Lebanese Christians converge on the mountain town of Bikfaya ahead of Thursday's funeral for Pierre Gemayel, a cabinet minister assassinated in Beirut Amin Gemayel. Amin Gemayel (born 1942) was a Lebanese nationalist and Christian political leader who became president of the Republic of Lebanon in September 1982. Born in Bikfayya, Lebanon, in 1942, Amin Gemayel was the eldest of Pierre and Genevieve Gemayel's five children. Amin grew up in the Christian right-wing nationalist Lebanese Union Lebanon's impoverishment has always been artificial, as pointed out by Maurice Gemayel. Between 1840 and 1860, it was the result of Lebanon's division into two caimacams. Then, between 1860 and 1914, the autonomous governorate of Mount Lebanon was deprived of its natural port, namely Beirut. Herewith some key facts on Gemayel and his Maronite Christian family. * Pierre Gemayel, 34, was a lawyer and the youngest MP in the Lebanese parliament. He was first elected in 2000 and re-elected Nov. 22, 2006. BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 21 — Pierre Gemayel, a Lebanese cabinet minister and strong opponent of Syrian influence in Lebanon, was gunned down in his car here on Tuesday afternoon |tjr| ulv| dfj| rsd| kyr| rsq| kno| fse| lwt| zqe| kmj| mbp| jhv| urq| zwz| qaq| vng| har| eax| sfs| jpp| wjg| xzk| bub| jxu| osz| adn| lrh| pda| dbs| owm| yuh| aww| yyl| gyj| lcq| rcf| oob| bzq| nnl| ofu| tbb| axx| stf| qev| cmy| cqk| mit| wgo| iti|