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Walid Joumblatt

وليد جنبلاط
Party leader Verified

Lebanese politician and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP); de facto leader of the Druze community in Lebanon. Pivotal swing-voter in Lebanese coalition politics for four decades; formally handed party leadership to his son Taymur in 2023 but remains the dominant figure.

Country
Lebanon
Party
Progressive Socialist Party
Role
Party leader

Position

Walid Joumblatt sits with Progressive Socialist Party, which doesn't carry a single compass position of its own yet.

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Walid Joumblatt [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 22, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-joumblatt
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Walid Joumblatt." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 22, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-joumblatt.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-walid-joumblatt,
  title     = {{Walid Joumblatt}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-joumblatt},
  urldate   = {2026-06-22},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 22, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-22},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.