# Tracy Chamoun > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tracy_Chamoun > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tracy_Chamoun.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Chamoun > Source revision: 1347275028 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Lebanese writer and political activist (born 1960)}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Tracy_Chamoun,_Noursat_Jordan_-_Oct_20,_2018.jpg | caption = Chamoun in 2018 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|10|22|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | occupation = Diplomat, writer, politician | father = [Dany Chamoun](/source/Dany_Chamoun) | relatives = [Camille Chamoun](/source/Camille_Chamoun) (grandfather)
[Dory Chamoun](/source/Dory_Chamoun) (uncle)
[Camille Dory Chamoun](/source/Camille_Dory_Chamoun) (cousin) | office = [Ambassador of Lebanon to Jordan](/source/List_of_ambassadors_of_Lebanon_to_Jordan) | term_start = 19 June 2017 | term_end = 7 August 2020 | predecessor = | successor = [Youssef Rajji](/source/Youssef_Rajji) }} '''Tracy Chamoun''' ({{langx|ar|ترايسي شمعون}}; born 22 October 1960){{cite web|url=http://legallaw.ul.edu.lb/LawArticles.aspx?LawArticleID=1082608&LawId=274082|title=الجامعة اللبنانية | مركز المعلوماتية القانونية :: التشريعات النافذة :: تعيين السيدة ترايسي باتريسيا دانيال شمعون، سفيراً من خارج الملاك في وزارة الخارجية والمغتربين :: المواد :: 1|website=legallaw.ul.edu.lb}} is a [Lebanese](/source/Lebanon) author, diplomat and political activist of Lebanese and [Australia](/source/Australia)n descent. She was the Lebanese ambassador to [Jordan](/source/Jordan) from 19 June 2017{{cite news|url=https://www.the961.com/tracy-chamoun-running-for-lebanese-presidency/|title=Tracy Chamoun Announces Her Candidacy For The Lebanese Presidency|work=The 961 |date=7 September 2022}} until 7 August 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53688975|title=Anti-government protests break out in Beirut|work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |date=7 August 2020}} == Early life == Tracy Chamoun was born on 22 October 1960 to the Chamoun political family. She is one of two surviving children of [Dany Chamoun](/source/Dany_Chamoun), the assassinated former leader of the [National Liberal Party](/source/National_Liberal_Party_(Lebanon)) and son of former President [Camille Chamoun](/source/Camille_Chamoun); her mother is the late Patti Morgan Chamoun, an Australian fashion model and actress. In October 1990, a militia attacked her father's home and killed him, his second wife and two of their three young children.{{cite web |title=Lebanon Historical Conflict Mapping and Analysis |url=https://civilsociety-centre.org/ictj/map/hist/map |access-date=13 September 2022 |website=Civil Society Knowledge Centre }} The Lebanese courts convicted [Samir Geagea](/source/Samir_Geagea) of the assassination.{{cite web |title=Lebanese Ex-Warlord Sentenced in Rival's Slaying : Mideast: Christian is the first militia chief convicted of civil war crimes. Many received amnesty. Eleven associates are also sentenced.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-25-mn-17158-story.html|access-date=6 July 2023 | website=L.A. Times }} ==Career== {{BLP sources section|date=February 2023}} ===Dany Chamoun Foundation=== Through the Dany Chamoun Foundation, Tracy Chamoun has sought to perpetuate the legacy of her father, who, on 21 October 1990, was assassinated together with his second wife and two children. Many received amnesty. Eleven associates are also sentenced.''Los Angeles Times'', 25 June 1995. Retrieved 14 October 2016. Her autobiography, ''Au Nom du Pere,'' centered on her relationship with her father and his life and work. In it, she recounts the harrowing experience in which she and her mother were kidnapped in 1980 during a [surprise attack](/source/Safra_massacre) on the [National Liberal Party](/source/National_Liberal_Party_(Lebanon)) headquarters by [Phalangist](/source/Kataeb_Party_(Lebanon)) militiamen under the command of [Bachir Gemayel](/source/Bachir_Gemayel), her father's former ally.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} ===Syrian occupation=== Chamoun was an outspoken critic of the [Syrian occupation of Lebanon](/source/Syrian_occupation_of_Lebanon). She has described her country's independence as a "myth". Before the [Independence Day](/source/Lebanese_Independence_Day) celebrations in 1990 she asked rhetorically:
To what extent does the establishment believe that the population is so blind that it cannot see that the nation is far from independent? Like the myth of the emperor with no clothes, it is a charade that only the sycophants see and celebrate.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
===Political views=== Chamoun is known for her moderate political views. She became the first woman to found a political party in the [Arab world](/source/Arab_world), called the "Liberal Democrats Party of Lebanon" (also translated as the Party of Liberal Democrats of Lebanon).{{cite web |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20130402-interview-tracy-chamoun-lebanon-liberal-democrats |title=Tracy Chamoun, Lebanese author and politician |website=France 24 |date=3 April 2013 }} She favors the building of a modern democracy, and has spoken out against what she sees as the feudal political system in which clan loyalties often play a more significant role than ideology in politics. Chamoun has vowed to continue to remind people of the truth behind the assassination of her slain father which she writes about in her books Le Sang De la Paix published by Lattes in France and ({{lang|ar|ثمن السلم}}) published by Antoine in Lebanon.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} ===Ambassador=== She served as ambassador to Jordan from 19 June 2017 to 7 August 2020.when she resigned after the [2020 Beirut explosion](/source/2020_Beirut_explosions), saying the catastrophe showed the need for a change in leadership. ===Candidacy for presidency=== On 29 August 2022, she announced her candidacy for president in the [2022 presidential election](/source/2022%E2%80%932025_Lebanese_presidential_election).{{cite web |last=Chehayeb |first=Kareem |title=Lebanon presidential candidate backs anti-Hezbollah platform |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanon-presidential-candidate-anti-hezbollah-platform-88994756 |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=ABC News }} ==See also== * [Chamoun family](/source/Chamoun_family) * [Samir Geagea](/source/Samir_Geagea) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{official website|http://www.tracydanychamoun.com/}} ==Further reading== *"Declaration on the anniversary of Dany Chamoun’s assassination", October 2008, Tayyar.org *"Warlord gets life, but plans his vacation" Robert Fisk, The Independent, 25 June 1995 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chamoun, Tracy}} Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Lebanese Maronites Category:Lebanese people of Australian descent Category:National Liberal Party (Lebanon) politicians Category:21st-century Lebanese women politicians Category:21st-century Lebanese politicians Category:Chamoun family Category:Ambassadors of Lebanon to Jordan Category:Women ambassadors of Lebanon Category:Lebanese memoirists Category:Lebanese women memoirists Category:Candidates for President of Lebanon Category:People of the Lebanese Civil War Category:21st-century Lebanese diplomats --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tracy Chamoun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Chamoun) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Chamoun?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.