Who is the new Secretary General of Hezbollah in Lebanon?
After the assassination of martyr Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Bin Mohammad Naim Qassem, a Shia cleric and Lebanese politician, was elected by the Hezbollah Leadership Council as the new Secretary General of this movement.
He was born in 1953 in al-Bastah al-Tahta area in Beirut, his father was originally from the Kafrfila area belonging to al-Tuffah region in southern Lebanon. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field of chemistry and started working in Islamic groups in Lebanon in the 70s of the last century. He started working with Imam Musa Sadr at the beginning of the establishment of the dispossessed movement in the seventies.
In 1970, he entered the faculty of educational sciences at the Lebanese University and chose the field of chemistry in French in this university. After graduation, he taught this field in Lebanese high schools for 6 years. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the same university in 1977.
Sheikh Naeem Qasim held classes for children in the mosque during his university studies and when he was only 18 years old. At the same time, he continued his seminary studies and studies and was a student of Allameh Seyyed Muhammad Hossein Fazlullah in the field of jurisprudence and principles.
During his university studies, he participated in the establishment of the Muslim Students’ Union in Lebanon and was the head of the Religious and Islamic Education Society from 1974 to 1988.
The new Secretary General of Hezbollah of Lebanon joined this group in 1974 immediately after the formation of Amal Movement as the military branch of the Lebanese Movement of the Underprivileged by Imam Musa Sadr and was elected as the successor of the cultural officer in this movement. He then became the secretary of the Amal movement’s command council.
After the Islamic revolution in Iran, Sheikh Naim Qassem resigned from the Amal Movement and completed his seminary studies and followed his religious activities by holding classes in mosques and hosseiniyehs in Beirut and its southern suburbs. He dedicated himself to this work for more than 10 years and held religious classes in many mosques and hosseiniyehs.
Sheikh Naim Qassem was one of the prominent elements in the process of establishing Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 and was elected as a member of the Hezbollah Council and was present in this council for 3 terms until he was entrusted with the educational and cultural responsibilities of Hezbollah in Beirut. He went on to become the deputy head of the Hezbollah Executive Council and then the head of this council, and finally in 1991 he was elected as the deputy secretary general of Hezbollah. One of his responsibilities is to follow the activities of Hezbollah’s parliamentary representatives and their political activities.
The long tenure of Sheikh Naim Qassem as the Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah was accompanied by many developments, including the July 1993 war and the 1996 war, the liberation of Lebanon in 2000, and the 33-day war in 2006, as well as the conflicts of 2017. Allah is increasing increasingly during this period.
Sheikh Naeem Qasim has several books, among them the book “Hezbollah” in which he explained the goals, history, and political views of this party. The book “Imam Khomeini Between Originality and innovation” and the book “Revivalist Leader” about Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, and the book “Resistance Society; Willingness to Martyrdom and Making Victory” is some of his other works.
He is married and has 6 children, 4 of whom are boys and 2 are girls.