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 “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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