Lebanon party
Amal Movement
حركة أملShia political and paramilitary movement founded by Musa al-Sadr. Long-standing partner of Hezbollah and the party of Speaker Nabih Berri.
- Founded
- 1974
- Current leader
- Nabih Berri
- Founders
- Musa al-Sadr
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Briefs about Amal Movement
Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 1 brief on file.
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Associated legislation
Bills this party introduced, championed, or whose passage / blocking it's publicly associated with. Status indicates the bill's parliamentary outcome. All Lebanon bills →
Declared vs. behavioral
For the axes below, this party's declared position (what the party says in its platform / official rhetoric) diverges from its behavioral position (its record of votes, coalition choices, or public actions). The spread itself is the methodological point — capturing the gap that a single composite score collapses.
- Sectarian power-sharing spread: 7.0D: +0.0 B: -7.0 C: -7.0
Lens spreads are currently hand-coded on a curated set of cases where the gap is well-documented. Document-grounded scoring against the party's own platform documents (declared) and its voting / coalition record (behavioral) will scale this across the dataset. See methodology for the full lens-system roadmap.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Arabic 1976-01-01 ميثاق حركة المحرومين (Charter of the Movement of the Deprived) — founding charter of the Amal Movement
البعد الأول – الإيمان بالله: إن حركة المحرومين تنطلق من الإيمان بالله، كما تعتمد على أساس الإيمان بالإنسان بوجوده وحريته وكرامته. البعد الثالث – الحرية ومحاربة الظلم: تؤمن بالحرية الكاملة للمواطن، وتحارب كافة أنواع…
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Speech Arabic 1974-03-17 Imam Musa al-Sadr — Baalbek address founding Harakat al-Mahrumin (the parent movement of Amal), 17 March 1974 (Arabic original)
ننتقل الى الرمل العالي وبرج البراجنة، الى ضواحي بيروت، ألا تستحي أيها المسؤول أن يكون على بُعد كيلومترات منك مثل هذه البيوت التي لا تُسكن؟ ويسألون لماذا ننفجر ولماذا نغضب؟ في شوارع بيروت 1200 طفل متشرد: 1100 منهم من…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded 1974 by Musa al-Sadr as Movement of the Disinherited
- current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Berri has led Amal since 1980; Speaker of Parliament since 1992
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). Amal Movement [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/amal
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Amal Movement." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/amal.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-amal,
title = {{Amal Movement}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/amal},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
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 21, 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 = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.