Elie Mahfoud

He was born in Beirut on 14 March 1968, to a Christian family from the town of Andaket in Akkar, North Lebanon. He is married to Maria Abu Shakra and they have two sons, Michel and Marc.[12][13]

He grew up with his family in Furn El Chebbak. He received his primary education at the Frère College,[12] and then moved to the Mont La Salle College in Ain Saadeh,[12] he then joined the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the Lebanese University and obtained a Bachelor of Laws,[12] then joined in 1993 the Beirut Bar Association as a graduated lawyer in Reda Al-Khazen's office.[12]

He was mentored by Said Akl and in 1985 founded the Change Movement,[14][3][15] which registered as a Lebanese party on 29 December 2010.[16] Mahfoud belongs to the Maronite politics and considers the Lebanese Forces and its leader Samir Geagea the closest to him,[17] also opposes the Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement.[18]

During the civil war period from 1986 to 1989, he volunteered in the Red Cross as a paramedic.[19] He participated rescue operations in military battles of Jbaa and Jarjoa, which It was between Hezbollah and the Amal Movement.[20]

He has published hundreds of articles in many Lebanese newspapers, and has thousands of positions, statements, statements, television and radio interviews and in the written press. He also published a number of political books like: "We and the Cause", "From the Phoenicians to the Aounists",[21] "Otherwise Lebanon Would End", "The Deception of theCentury",[22] "With Thirty pieces of Silver".[23][24]