Nazira Jumblatt


Nazira Jumblatt was a Druze leader and the mother of Lebanese politician and Kamal Jumblatt. Nazira took on the political role and the leadership of the Jumblatt family upon the assassination of her husband Fouad Jumblatt in 1921. Nazira ran the family affairs until her son Kamal took the reins of political and family leadership into his own hands. Nazira was styled sitt.

Legacy

French novelist Pierre Benoit used Al-Sitt Nazira as the model for the heroine of his 1924 novel La Châtelaine du Liban.
Sitt Nazira was also the main subject of the 2003 Lebanese documentary Lady of the Palace.