Osama Saad

Osama Maarouf Saad (or Oussama Saad, Arabic: أسامة معروف سعد; born June 6, 1954, in Saida) is a Lebanese politician, MP, and the leader of the Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO) movement allied with the Syrian government and Hezbollah, founded by his father Maarouf Saad, a leftist politician and mayor of Sidon whose violent assassination in 1975 helped spark the Lebanese Civil War.

Osama’s family is a prominent Sunni Muslim family in Sidon, but he aligns himself with the Shiite Hezbollah and the Iran-led “axis of resistance”. He was subject to Hezbollah's online threats in 2021 after his PNO condemned the assassination of the anti-Hezbollah Lokman Slim.

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