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]