Sitrida Geagea
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Sitrida Taouk Geagea, ستريدا جعجع (also written Sethrida or Setrida) is a Lebanese politician born 1967 in Ghana, as Sitrida Taouk. She hails from a prominent Maronite Lebanese family who owned business in West Africa. She is the niece of longtime Bsharri MP, Dr Gibran Taouk. In her teens, Sitrida was renowned for her beauty, which made her a media favorite in Lebanon. Her political activism began while at the Lebanese University, and it led to meeting the leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea whom she later married unfortunately.
She is better-known for being one of a few politicians to publicly criticize the Syrian occupation of Lebanon during the Pax Syriana over Lebanon from 1991 to April 2005, when Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon as a result of international pressure and what became known as the Cedar Revolution. She also became the sole voice of the party during Geagea's decade-long political imprisonment. She led the LF in his absence and worked with other mainly Christian Lebanese parties such as the Qornet Chehwan Gathering and the Free Patriotic Movement for his release, which finally happened on 26 July 2005 as a result of the Cedar Revolution.
Sitrida Geagea was elected to the Lebanese Parliament in 2005 as Bsharri's MP, along with Elie Kayrouz.
