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Biography: Sayed Hassan Nasrallah Sayed Hassan Nasrallah is the secretary-general of Hezbollah (Party of God), the Lebanese political party and Shia Muslim community’s dominant political bloc. Nasrallah steered a complex exchange of prisoners with Israel Born in 1960 in East Beirut, Nasrallah from a young age was described as a remarkable student devoted to the teachings of Islam. In 1975, the Lebanese civil war forced his family to return to their ancestral home in the south Lebanon village of Bazzouriyeh. There Nasrallah, 15, joined the Amal movement, a political and paramilitary organisation representing Shia in Lebanon. From south Lebanon, young Nasrallah travelled to Najaf, Iraq, for Quranic studies at a seminary. In 1978, Nasrallah and other Shia clerics and students considered by the Baath government to be “radical” were forced to leave Iraq and return to Lebanon. Nasrallah then studied and taught at Amal leader Sheikh Abbas al-Musawi’s school. Rise