Nabih Berri
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Oct 15, 2026
Hagar ChemaliGUEST
The prime minister, who currently is Nawaf Salam, he is a Sunni, always it's a Sunni position.
Hagar ChemaliGUEST
And the third is the speaker of the parliament, currently Nabi Berri, and that is a Shia position.
Hagar ChemaliGUEST
This was a setup that was created after the civil war at the end to create basically a confessional system where everybody felt represented.
Hagar ChemaliGUEST
So the three presidents, when the Iran war started, told Hezbollah publicly and privately, you are not to get involved in this.
Kim GhattasGUEST
And it didn't matter that Malcolm was the best kind of American.
Kim GhattasGUEST
It didn't matter that he loved the region, spoke the, spoke the language, felt at home in Lebanon, um, was leader of a, of an, of an incredible university, was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
Kim GhattasGUEST
With all the criticism that he could also address to the Arab world, he wasn't sort of Pollyanna-ish about it.
Brian KatulisHOST
Right.
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Kim GhattasGUEST
But I posit that Amal and Hezbollah were actually, you know, working together quite well.
Kim GhattasGUEST
Um, there was a hijacking of the hijacking, in essence.
Kim GhattasGUEST
You know, the plane had been hijacked by Hezbollah, then Amal and its leader, Nabih Berri, who's today our Speaker of the House because everyone is e- eternal, apparently, in Lebanon.
Kim GhattasGUEST
Um, they took over the hijacking to preserve-
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
At the same time, they're paralyzed by the fear that the army will split or that there will be internal conflict.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
A very important actor in trying to ensure greater cohesion of the security apparatus in Lebanon is Nabi Berri, who is the head of the Amal Party, which is kind of the only major ally that Hezbollah has left.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
The Shiite party.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
Yeah, it's a Shia party.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
At the same time, they're paralyzed by the fear that, um, that the army will split or that there will be internal conflict.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
Um, a very important actor, um, in, um, trying to ensure greater cohesion of the security apparatus in, in Lebanon is Nabih Berri, who is, uh, the head of the Amal Party, uh, which is, uh, kind of the only major ally that Hezbollah has left.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
So he quite-
Lazar BermanHOST
The Shiite party.
Andrew MuellerHOST
Abu Saab is the founder of the American University of Dubai.
Andrew MuellerHOST
and also what it is up against in that the Speaker of Lebanon's Parliament is, as it has been since 1992, Nabi Berri, now 88, long-serving leader of Amal, once a rival militia to Hezbollah, now a sort of Shia ally.
Andrew MuellerHOST
Starting with the easy question, I began by asking how far Lebanon currently is from reaching any kind of agreement with Israel.
Andrew MuellerHOST
Representatives from the two countries are supposed to meet next month in Rome.