Rindala Jabbur youngest political bureau member from the Free Patriotic Movement

In its issue of yesterday, As Safir daily highlighted the experience of Rindala Jabbur, a woman member in the Free Patriotic Movement (Tayyar), for being the youngest political bureau member in the country and the second in the Tayyar’s political council after Mireille Aoun Hashem. Coming from the West Beqaa town of Ammeeq, the woman activist and journalism graduate, who just turned 30, disclosed to As Safir that she has run for the party’s political bureau elections for three reasons. Firstly, because she is a woman, and that General Michel Aoun, head of the Tayyar, is a staunch women advocate, secondly, because she seeks to bring in the spirit of youth in partisan work in Lebanon, and thirdly, because as a journalist, this helps her to properly communicate her political message. On her experience with the Tayyar, Jabbur told the newspaper that her political preferences have awakened when she was still a high school student and grown with her throughout her years in college. Elaborating on her political and professional life, Jabbur recalled her participation in the FPM rallies on the streets since 2002, and later on in the university campus and in the central information committee, up to her post as a Tayyar’s information officer in the West Beqaa constituency. This, she added, besides her work as a reporter and anchor of ‘haki baladi’ program at Radio Sawt al Mada, and also as an instructor since 2009 at the International Lebanese University and the Lebanese University. Jabbur finally mentioned that she had accompanied General Aoun in two of his complex trips to Iran and Syria, and recently published her first novel entitled ‘Ayla’ for which she won UNESCO’s first prize of reading. (As Safir, March 5, 2016)