Ibrahim Najjar is a lawyer and a Lebanese politician and Cabinent Minister.
He is from the North Lebanon village of Amioun

Amioun

Amioun in and other scripts of the name, are most probably transliterated from the original Amyūn. It is the capital town of the predominantly Greek Orthodox area Koura District in the North of Lebanon.-Name:...

 in the Koura district

Koura District

Koura or El Koura is a district in the North Governorate, Lebanon.Koura is one of the 36 districts of Lebanon, which is very popular for the olive tree cultivation. It is known by its dark green color....

 and is an adherent of the Greek Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Church

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. He is also close to the Lebanese Forces

Lebanese Forces

The Lebanese Forces is a Lebanese political party. Founded as a militia by Bachir Gemayel during the Lebanese Civil War, the movement fought as the main militia within the Christian-dominated Lebanese Front...

 and was formerly a Kataeb party official. He was head of the Kataeb’s Koura district bureau from 1973 to 1978. Najjar is also a law professor at Saint Joseph University.
After high school at St. Joseph's College Antoura and studies at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and in France, Najjar was involved in politics in the Kataeb party

Kataeb Party

The Lebanese Phalanges , better known in English as the Phalange , is a traditional right-wing Lebanese political party. Although it is officially secular, it is mainly supported by Maronite Christians. The party played a major role in the Lebanese War...

 and approximates with the former president Amine Gemayel. He was a member of the Political Bureau of the Kataeb in the 1970s.

Ibrahim Najjar is the author of an important thesis on the "potestative rights" in the French law, and of two major law books on Family laws in Lebanon, together with a law Dictionary (French Arabic and Arabic French). His writings in the famous Dalloz Encyclopedia and Dalloz Bulletin are well known. I. Najjar is the owner and editor of The Lebanese Review Of Arab And International Arbitration, since 1996.

The National medal for Human rights was attributed to I. Najjar in 2010 after his draft law to abolish death penalty in Lebanon

A teacher of law, he was tutor for the current Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Ziad Baroud. In July 2008, the Lebanese Forces, led by Samir Geagea, in agreement with the party Kataeb, joined the new national unity government headed by Fouad Siniora

Fouad Siniora

Fuad Siniora is a Lebanese politician, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon, a position he held from 19 July 2005 to May 25, 2008 the date of the election of the new President of Lebanon; he was renominated to the post on 28 May 2008 and held the post as Acting President between those...

. Ibrahim Najjar was appointed Minister of Justice and reelected for in 2009 by Saad Hariri.