List of political families in Lebanon
Notable members: El-Assaad or Al As'ad is a feudal political clan originally from Najd and a main branch of the anza tribe.
[4] Unrelated to Syrian or Palestinian Al-Assads, El-Assaad dynasty that ruled most of South Lebanon for three centuries and whose lineage defended fellow denizens of history's [5]Jabal Amel (Mount Amel) principality – today southern Lebanon – for 36 generations, Balqa in Jordan, Nablus in Palestine, and Homs in Syria governed by Ottoman rule between generations throughout the Arab caliphate.
The Bazzi clan is spread across the Middle East from Lebanon to Iraq, Iran, and Yemen, and to Europe as far as Northern Italy, without confirmed[by whom?]
[citation needed] Their political presence has been established since the French mandate of Greater Lebanon with MP Ali Bazzi (Abu Hani).
[10] This was due to the heavy influx of Arab refugees coming from the Iberian Peninsula to the Maghreb and the Levant following the fall of Al-Andalus to the Catholic Monarchs.
[15] In 1642 Sheikh Abu Aoun was the joint governor of the subdistrict of Bsharri alongside the Druze chief Zayn al-Din of the Sawwaf family.
Also, Cheikh Majd Harb, son of Cheikh Boutros Harb, is a Lebanese lawyer and political and human rights activist, he presented several news, the first of which was about Hezbollah, accusing it of money laundering, smuggling and establishing a banking network in violation of the law (good loan), then about the President of the Lebanese Republic (Michel Aoun) and Prime Minister (Hassan Diab) after the explosion of the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020, because they did not take measures to remove dangerous materials that were stored in the port, which is considered a precedent in Lebanon's legal history, the latest of which is Lebanese ministers on charges of abusing power and embezzling public funds.
[21] Mac Harb, is a Lebanese-born Canadian Politician who served successively in local Ottawa positions, as a Member of the House of Commons (1988-2003), and as a Senator for Ontario (2003-2013).
[31] In modern politics, the family saw the likes of Emile Lahoud as the country's president who had close ties with the Syrian Al-Assad regime.
[34] The eldest son of Rene, Michel Moawad, founded the Independence Movement, a reformist, Lebanese Nationalist party that goes against the Syrian Regime and the weapons of Hezbollah.
Many of its members have held ministerial and parliamentary positions, most notably Michel El-Murr and his son Elias who made fortunes in Africa.
They are usually given the honorific title Sayyid before their first name, implying that a person is a direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his sixth generation grandson, Musa al-Kadhim.
Notable members: The Osseiran family traces its Shia origins to what is now Iraq and there to the tribe of the Bani Asad, which fought alongside Hussein - the son of Ali and grandson of the prophet Mohammed, at Karbala in 680.
After their defeat the survivors suffered persecution and after an unknown period of time one of the tribal members - Haidar - reportedly fled to Baalbek, where he had two sons: Ali and Osseiran.
[40] Historians have established that the Osseirans rose to prominence and power as grain merchants in Sidon and the Jabal Amel region of modern-day Southern Lebanon soon after the Ottoman Empire assumed control over the area in 1516. Notable members: Notable members: The Rassi family is a Greek Orthodox family in the areas of Koura and Tripoli which became known through the political legacy of Abdullah Rassi.
The family, through lucrative business ventures, savvy political maneuvering, and strategic marriages, embarked on what Leila Fawaz called "the most spectacular social climb of the nineteenth century," and, at their peak, had built a close network of relations to the families of Egyptian, French, Irish, Russian, Italian and German aristocracies, alongside a manufacturing and distribution empire spanning the Mediterranean.
The family is known for being the founders of Al-Nahar newspaper and for being critics of the Syrian government which costed the life of a March 14 member and Lebanese nationalist, Gebran Tueni.
