Nazira Jumblatt

Biography

Nazira Jumblatt (1890–1951) (Arabic: نظيره جنبلاط‎) was a Druze leader and the mother of Lebanese politician and Kamal Jumblatt. Nazira was born in 1890 and her parents were Faris and Afrida Said Joumblatt. Her maternal grandfather, Said, died in prison of tuberculosis on May 11, 1861. She was educated at home by her grandmother and private teachers and learned English and French.

She married Fouad Joumblatt in 1905, when she was 15 years old. Their children were Kamal Jumblatt and Linda Al Atrash, killed in her home in East Beirut on May 27, 1976 during the civil war. Nazira assumed the political role and leadership of the Jumblatt family after the assassination of her husband Fouad Jumbla...