Joseph Abu Khalil
Born1925
DiedDecember 2019 (aged 8687)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Politician
Political partyKataeb Party

Joseph Abu Khalil (1925–2019) was a Lebanese politician from the Kataeb Party. He served in various posts in the party and edited its official newspaper, Al Amal, for a long time.

Biography

Being a native of Beit ed-Dine, Mount Lebanon, Abu Khalil was born in 1925.[1] He was a Maronite.[1] He was one of the close allies of the Kataeb Party leadership, namely Gemayel family members, including Pierre Gemayel and his son Bashir Gemayel.[1][2] At the beginning of the 2000s Abu Khalil was an advisor to Amine Gemayel, the eldest son of Pierre Gemayel.[3] Within the Kataeb party he held several posts.[4] Abu Khalil was political secretary of the party in the mid-1970s.[5] He was elected its deputy president in the congress in June 2015 when Samy Gemayel was elected president of Kataeb party.[6]

Abu Khalil was among the founders of a radio station, Voice of Lebanon, in 1958.[4] Next he was named the editor-in-chief of Al Amal newspaper.[4]

Abu Khalil died in December 2019.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rabah Makram Rabah (2020). Conflict on Mount Lebanon: The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-4744-7420-7.
  2. Dylan Baun (2017). "Lebanon's Youth Clubs and the 1936 Summer Olympics: Mobilizing Sports, Challenging Imperialism and Launching a National Project". The International Journal of the History of Sport. 34 (13): 1358. doi:10.1080/09523367.2017.1388230. S2CID 149273637.
  3. Pierre Maroun (February–March 2003). "Dossier: Amine Gemayel". Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. 5 (2).
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Kataeb Mourn Party's First Deputy-President Joseph Abu Khalil". Kataeb Party. 14 December 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. Zach Levey (2021). "The United States, Israel and the 1976 Red Lines in Lebanon". The International History Review. 44 (4): 10. doi:10.1080/07075332.2021.1976811. S2CID 240515079.
  6. "Samy Gemayel elected president of Kataeb party". Lebanese Examiner. 14 June 2015.
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