Moukhtara

Moukhtara
Arabic: المختارة
	The Jumblatt family palace in Moukhtara, 1861
	Shown within Lebanon
Location	30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon
Region	Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate
Coordinates	33°39′32″N 35°36′50″E / 33.658863°N 35.613877°E
Part of	Settlement
History
Material	tools, flint, bone, ceramics
Periods	PPNB, Neolithic
Site notes
Excavation dates	1963
Archaeologists	J. Cauvin
Condition	ruins
Public access	Yes

Moukhtara (Arabic: المختارة) is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are divided between Druze and Christians. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.