Etienne Saqr

Étienne Saqr
إتيان صقر
Étienne Saqr in Tel El Zaatar
Personal details
Born	1937 (age 86–87) Ain Ebel, Greater Lebanon
Political party	Guardians of the Cedars
Children	Karol Sakr Pascale Sakr Arez Sakr
Residence(s)	Nicosia, Cyprus
Military service
Years of service	1954–2000
Battles/wars	1958 Lebanon crisis Lebanese Civil War Battle of the Hotels South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)

Étienne Saqr (Arabic: إتيان صقر; born on 26 December 1937; last name also spelt Sakr), also known by his kunya Abu Arz (Arabic: أبو أرز, lit. 'Father of the Cedar'), is a Lebanese nationalist leader and founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party. Saqr and his militia participated in the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s and 1980s, and remained militantly active until he was expelled from the country with the flight of the South Lebanon Army, of which he was not a member, in May 2000.^[1]