Joyce Gemayel (Arabic: جويس جميل‎) (born Joyce Tayan) is the wife of former President of Lebanon, Amin Gemayel (1982-1988), and mother of the assassinated politician Pierre Amine Gemayel.

She married into the Gemayel family in 1967, becoming part "of one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian political dynasties", ^[1] and raised three children, Pierre, Sami and Nicole, as Maronite Christians.

Images of her grieving her son were widely used in global media reports, ^[2] illustrating the "tears and cries of anger" of the mourners.^[3] Subsequently, and alongside her husband, ^[4] Gemayel has spoken out against political killings in Lebanon, and encouraged Christian Lebanese to be "united" in opposition to Syrian influence in the country. ^[5]

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