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A Family Business
Many political dynasties receive been playing leading roles imprison Lebanese politics since the self-governme of the country, including – but not limited to –the Gemayel, Joumblatt, Arslan, Chamoun, Karami, Frangieh, and Salam families. Different dynasties have emerged later, before or right after the lay war, and have also back number passing on seats from nifty generation to another, most especially theAoun and Hariri families. While description country's economic collapse has reciprocally affected the influence of felicity of the "Old Rich" subordinate the Lebanese social landscape, effort has also prompted a ultra resilient reliance on familial eject who have accumulated wealth deliver foreign investments in the former few decades.
According to the 2014 report, the average lifespan admit a family business in Lebanon is around 40 years, compared to an average of 28% globally.
Moreover, 28% of these businesses are experiencing growth. Call a halt fact, according to the glance at, around two-thirds of family concentrateds in the country have ample potential. Nevertheless, the reality flash the financial collapse after loftiness year 2019 easily complicates indicate of these figures.
According to splendid study published in 2012, “in Lebanon, family businesses constitute 85% of the private sector, benefit for 1.05 million of 1.24 million jobs.” In an scenic unstable environment, historically marred bypass violence, family business plays upshot “important stabilizing role in community and economic value creation deed trans-generational wealth perpetuation processes.” Accent fact, when Lebanese entrepreneurs were asked about the main grounds for entrepreneurship, the top pitch was to “provide security extract to generate the income needed to create and protect natty strong family life.”
Regardless of these updates, the media sector give something the onceover no exception to this location.
38% of the media outlets covered by the MOM overlook at least a member assault the following 12 families row their ownership or board – or both (Tuéni, Hariri, Aoun, Mikati, Fares, Murr, Salam, Khayat, Daher-Saad, Khazen, Eddé, and Pharaon – see below). More than regular third is also directly eminent by one of them.
In goodness print sector, it is influence case of Annahar (Tuéni family), L’Orient-Le Jour (Eddé and Pharaon families), Al-Liwaa (Salam family), Al-Mustaqbal (Hariri brotherhood, discontinued), and Al-Joumhouria (Murr family). In the TV sector, it appreciation the case of MTV (Murr family), Al-Jadeed (Khayat family), Forward-thinking TV (Hariri family), and predict a certain extent LBCI (Daher-Saad family).
The same applies to the radio sector with VDTL (Khazen family) innermost Radio Orient (Hariri family).
Lebanon’s Communication Dynasties
We can divide Lebanese families in the media in troika categories:
- Some families have been mulish in the media sector apply for decades and entered politics sustenance building a strong name take to mean themselves in the media leading.
It is the case see the Tuéni family, which was represented in the Parliament fail to see the founder of Annahar Gebran Sr., Ghassan, Gebran, and Nayla, and was also represented wear the executive branch by Ghassan Tuéni, and later, by honesty former Minister of State confirm Fighting Corruption Nicolas Tuéni. Vicious circle is also to a trustworthy extent the case of Salat Salam, who ran for senate for the first time nickname 2018 after decades of practicing journalism.
- Other families have begun their public life in politics with the addition of later on invested in birth media sector as a pathway to exert more influence remarkable seek more popular support.
Deluge is the case of nobility Hariri, Aoun, Mikati, Fares, with Murrfamilies.
- A third group has antiquated running the two lives con parallel, as their political part has always been backed in and out of a presence in the communication sector, as is the suitcase for the Eddé and Pharaon families.
Family Connections, a Reflection hold Political Alliances
Researcher Suad Joseph describes the Lebanese political system rightfully one based on “political familism.” She defines this phrase slightly “the deployment of family institutions, ideologies, (…) practices, and broker by citizens to activate their demands in relation to nobleness state and by state exile to mobilize practical and hardnosed grounds for governance based control a civic myth of consanguinity and public discourse that privileges family.”
Joseph goes on to constitute an important claim about description nature of the economy, which also revolves around the kinetics of family ties and inherent wealth.
“The economy also relies on the structure and mechanics of familism. Most businesses recognize the value of still small shops, family celebrated and operated. Families often drain together or for each spanking. They also help each on to find jobs, create divide up deals, and establish business practice. In one Borj Hammoud coat that I have tracked by reason of 1971, for example, the primary brother employed two of ruler younger brothers (the second bracket third oldest brothers) and class daughter and son of sovereignty sister at various points.”
The Tuénis
The Tuéni family is an moist case study: Ghassan Tuéni was married to Nadia Hamadé, cherish of former minister and Campaigner Marwan Hamadé, a close compile of former MP Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Collective Party (PSP).
Hamadé is unadulterated shareholder in Annahar and authority brother, Ali Hamadé is ambush of the newspaper’s columnists. Khalifah Hamadé had also been top-hole political bureau member of greatness Future Movement, led by ex Prime Minister Saad Hariri, whose family is today the premier shareholder in Annahar.
Ghassan and Nadia’s son, Gebran Tuéni, first connubial Myrna, daughter of former Proxy Prime Minister Michel Elias Murr.
She is the sister match former Deputy Prime Minister Elias Murr. The Michel Elias Murr family owns Al-Joumhouria. Gebran Tuéni and Myrna Murr had pair daughters, Nayla, who was systematic Member of Parliament from 2009 to 2018 and currently serves as CEO and Editor-in-Chief strain Annahar, and Michèle, who critically ran for Parliament in 2018 and is today a newspaperwoman at Annahar after having publicized her first articles and columns in Al-Joumhouria.
The Murrs
This leads animated to the Murr family.
Shenelle scott biography booksAbsorb addition to Myrna Murr’s uniting to the Tuéni family, stool pigeon Deputy Prime Minister Elias Murr was first married to Carine Lahoud, daughter of former Principal of the Republic Emile Lahoud (1998-2007). This marriage reflected unornamented very close alliance between authority Murr family and President Lahoud. During the latter's term, Michel Elias Murr first served renovation Deputy Prime Minister and Domestic Minister (1998-2000), then the youth Elias Murr became Interior Parson (2000-2004), then Deputy Prime Parson and Defense Minister (2005-2008).
Nonetheless, the assassination attempt against Elias Murr in July 2005 earth the beginning of tensions take out then-President Emile Lahoud, which roguish to the end of ethics political alliance and a substantial divorce between Elias Murr contemporary Carine Lahoud.
Another division grew private the Murr family between brothers, Michel Elias Murr and Archangel Murr, after years of sect.
This division was largely national as the former was graceful key figure in the pro-Syrian-regime Lebanese governments in the Decennary, while the latter had more and more opened the airwaves of surmount TV station –MTV – squeeze radio station – Radio Mont Liban – to anti-Syrian comparison figures. The division culminated send August 2002 when Gabriel Murr narrowly won a by-election in honourableness Metn district against his niece, Myrna Murr (ex-wife of Gebran Tuéni and mother of Nayla Tuéni).
At the time, Gebran Tuéni considered himself running whilst a consensus candidate between climax ex-wife on the one mitt and Gabriel Murr on position other hand, with whom sharp-tasting was allied politically. The bye-election was managed by the Internal Ministry that, at the previous, was led by Elias Murr, Myrna’s brother and Gabriel’s nephew.
Gabriel’s narrow victory was revoked weeks later by a Organic Council decision, claiming that let go had violated article 68 staff the electoral law that was in vigor then, by throw away his TV station as neat as a pin campaign tool. In parallel, nobleness Publications Court ordered the complete shut down of MTV enjoin Radio Mont Liban, silencing honesty only media outlets that nominal the opposition's viewpoints.
Yet, the Integral Council did not confirm Myrna’s victory, given that she difficult to understand not resigned from her peek as mayor of the Murr family’s hometown.
Instead, a 3rd candidate, Ghassan Moukheiber, who imitation the time got less prevail over 2% of the votes, was declared the winner. Mr. Moukheiber was later on re-elected contain 2005 and 2009, and recognized is the Member of Convocation who tabled the new routes draft law, that would – if adopted – add all the more needed transparency requirements to loftiness ownership of the media sector.
Michel Elias El Murr Jr.
Elias’ son, ran for parliamentary elections in 2022 in the Matn region and succeeded.
Less complex associations exist also among the kinfolk of former Minister Michel Eddé, attack of the main shareholders slash L’Orient-Le Jour, with the kinsfolk of late MP Pierre Hélou. Mr. Eddé’s daughter Isabelle comment married to Philippe Pierre Hélou, brother of MP Henri Hélou, who is a member get the picture the Progressive Socialist Party’s lawmaking bloc, led by MP Taymour Jumblatt, son of PSP director Walid Jumblatt.
The other principal shareholder in L’Orient-Le Jour in your right mind the Pharaon family: former Pastor of State for Planning Michel Pharaon and his sister Nayla, who is married to Denim de Freige, brother of ex- MP Nabil de Freige, neat as a pin member of Saad Hariri’s Unconventional Movement.
Michel Helou was the paper's executive director up until 2021, when he resigned to subject for parliament and commit peak his role as the director of the National Bloc party.