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Lebanon's lawyers elected on Sunday Amal Hadad to head the Beirut Bar Association. Haddad is the first woman to preside over the association since the establishment of the syndicate in 1920s. She was elected after the pullout of contender Georges Jreij from the race ahead of the second electoral round. "You surpassed all obstacles and complications.

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