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Nabih Berri (Template:Lang-ar; born January 28, 1938) is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Party.
He was born in Bo, Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut. He obtained a Law degree in 1963 from the Lebanese University, where he had served as the student body president. During the 1960s, he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement.
In the early 1970s he worked in Beirut as a lawyer for General Motors. He also lived in the Detroit-area from 1976 to 1978.
He held a series of positions in the Amal movement during the 1970, as a follower of Imam Moussa Sader, a Shi'a cleric who disappeared in mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Libya in 1978, and who is thought to have been ordered killed by the president of Libya Muammar Ghaddafi.
The resignation of Hussein el-Husseini from his post as leader of Amal resulted in Berri's assumption of full control in April 1980, and consequently the resignation of most of Amal's earliest members.
He led the Amal movement during the fierce fighting of Lebanon's civil war. In 1984, he joined the National Unity government as Minister for Southern Reconstruction, and later, of Justice and of Electrical and Hydraulic Resources, under Prime Minister Rashid Karami.
Berri again served as a Cabinet minister from 1989 to 1992, when he was elected Speaker of the National Assembly on November 20.