Amal movement
| Amal movement حركة أمل |
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| Party leader | Nabih Berri |
| founding | 1974 |
| Headquarters | Beirut |
| Alignment |
Conservatism Populism Schia |
| Website | www.amal-movement.com |
The Amal Movement ( Arabic حركة أمل, DMG ḥarakat amal , French Mouvement des dépossédés or Mouvement Amal or German Movement of Hope ), in Lebanese vernacular also simply Amal ( German hope ), is a socially conservative and populist party of the Shiites in Lebanon . In Arabic it saysأمل / amal for the first letters ofأفواج المقاومة اللبنانية / Afwāǧ al-muqāwama al-lubnāniyya / 'Battalions of the Lebanese Resistance'.
The foundation goes back to the initiative of the Shiite cleric Musa as-Sadr , who founded Amal in 1975 as the leader of a series of mass demonstrations from the end of 1974. Despite being influenced by Muslim ideas, the Amal, like many other Lebanese parties, tries to unite people at the community level rather than on the basis of religious-ideological common ground.
The Amal mainly denounced social grievances and tried in this way to distinguish itself alongside the Communist Party of Lebanon as a representative of social demands.
In addition to the propagated idea of equality, the Amal saw another important field of action in the defense of southern Lebanon from Israeli attacks. Like almost all Lebanese parties, it trained an armed arm that developed into one of the civil war militias , the Amal militia .
As a party, the Amal has provided the Lebanese Parliament President Nabih Berri since 1992 . The Amal movement has been continuously represented in the Lebanese parliament since 1990 and currently has 15 out of 128 seats (as of 2006). She is also a member of the Pro-Syrian Alliance of March 8 and did not take part in the 2005 Cedar Revolution . In the Diab government, in office since January 21, 2020 , the Amal movement is represented by the two ministers Ghazi Wazni (finance) and Abbas Mortada (agriculture and culture).