amal movement

a young woman from the amal movement, a shiite organization in lebanon, reaches out to a picture of ruhollah khomeini as she holds a position in the chiah district of beirut. in 1975, lebanon fell into a violent civil war between christian, muslim, and palestinian factions, which grew into an international crisis as syrian troops intervened, israeli forces invaded, and multinational forces attempted peacekeeping. March 22 1984.