Lebanon Party leader
Naim Qassem
نعيم قاسمSecretary-General of Hezbollah since October 2024, succeeding Hassan Nasrallah after his assassination in an Israeli airstrike. Long-time deputy under Nasrallah; presides over the party's post-war reconstitution.
Inherited position
Until Naim Qassem is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Briefs about Hezbollah
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Hezbollah to other parties. 3 briefs on file.
- Hezbollah vs. Amal Movement LB The Shia Lebanese pair. The Khomeinist armed party-state against the secular-nationalist legacy movement. Adversaries in the 1980s, allies since the early 2000s.
- Hezbollah vs. Hamas PS The axis of resistance, by sect. Iranian-backed Shia Islamist party-army against Muslim Brotherhood-rooted Sunni Islamist resistance movement. Allies against the same adversary, doctrinally distinct in almost every other respect.
- Hezbollah vs. Lebanese Forces LB Lebanon's sharpest confessional rivalry. Hezbollah's Shia armed party-state vs the Lebanese Forces' Christian-right legacy of the civil war.
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On the record
Quotes attributed to Naim Qassem that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.
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We are following the same path as the martyrs and the resistance: we will follow it, we will follow it.
نحن سائرون على نفس الطريق، طريق الشهداء والمقاومة، سنسير عليه، سنسير عليه.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Speech Arabic 2025-04-18 Naim Qassem — address on Lebanon's defense strategy and the Resistance's weapons, 18 April 2025 (Hezbollah-official English translation)
Yes, the constitution says arms should be exclusively in the hands of the state—and we agree. But which arms are we talking about? The weapons that maintain public order, the arms of internal security forces. As for the…
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). Naim Qassem [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/qassem
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Naim Qassem." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/qassem.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-qassem,
title = {{Naim Qassem}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/qassem},
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.