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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Amine Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem, Antoine Zahra (legislator), Bachir Gemayel, Boutros Khawand, Elie Hobeika, Farid Habib, Fouad Abou Nader, Georges Saadeh, Ibrahim Najjar, Joseph Sarkis, Karim Pakradouni, Maurice Gemayel, Nadim Gemayel, Pierre Amine Gemayel, Pierre Gemayel, Samy Gemayel, Solange Gemayel, William Hawi. Excerpt: Bachir Gemayel (Arabic: Bash r al-Ghimayal, also Romanized al-Jumayyil, El Gemaiel, Joomayyeel; 10 November 1947 - 14 September 1982) was a Lebanese politician, militia commander, and president-elect. He was a senior member of the Phalange party and the commander of the Lebanese Forces militia amid the first several years of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90). He was elected president on 23 August 1982 while the country was torn by civil war and occupied by both Israel and Syria. He was assassinated on 14 September 1982, along with 26 others, when a bomb exploded in the Beirut headquarters of the Phalange. The bomb was planted by Habib Tanious Shartouni. The FBI blamed the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Bachir as a childBachir was born in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut on 10 November 1947, the youngest of six children. The Gemayel family is originally from the Bikfaya village in the Matn District of Lebanon and is one of the most influential Christian families in Lebanon. His father was Pierre Gemayel, who founded the Phalange party in 1936 as a youth movement. Bachir Gemayel attended College de Notre Dame de Jamhour and the Institution Moderne du Liban (I.M.L)- Fanar. He completed his university education at St. Joseph University (Universite Saint-Joseph - U.S.J.) in Beirut. After teaching for three years at the Lebanese Modern Institute, he graduated in 1971 with a degree in Law and another in Political Sciences in 1973. In 1971, Gemayel also took another law qualification from...