12 Facts About Majid Arslan

Emir Majid Toufic Arslan was a Lebanese Druze leader and head of the Arslan feudal Druze ruling family.

Majid Arslan was a national political figure with a role in Lebanon's independence, a long-running Member of the Lebanese Parliament.

Majid Arslan was the son of Emir Toufic Majid Arslan who helped found Greater Lebanon in 1920.

Emir Majid Arslan studied at the famous French school, Mission Laique Francaise.

In 1956, after his first wife's death, Emir Majid Arslan remarried Khawla Jumblatt.

Majid Arslan was known for his exceptional skills in horsemanship and would often exercise his hobby in a southern village El Mageedieh, named after him.

Majid Arslan has been the longest serving Lebanese politician in a ministerial office and was elected as the Defense Minister for twenty two times.

Emir Majid Arslan ran for parliamentary elections in 1931 and won the Druze seat of Aley Cazaa district.

Over a period of 35 years, Emir Majid Arslan held various ministerial posts.

Emir Majid Arslan was the leader of the independence of Lebanon in 1943 when the president Bechara El Khoury with fellow ministers were taken to prison to Rachaya by the French.

One of Emir Majid Arslan's brothers escaped to Majdel Baana to seek refuge there among members of the Abdel Khalek family as well as the Abi Jumaa's and Nasr's.

At that time Majid Arslan declared a Free Lebanon from the home of the Halabi family in Bechamoun where he sought refuge from the arrests.