Early Career
In the early 1970s, Berri worked in Beirut as a lawyer for General Motors. He also lived in the Detroit area from 1976 to 1978.
He held a series of positions in the Amal movement during the late 1970s, after Imam Musa al-Sadr, a Shi'a cleric, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Libya in 1978, and is thought to have been killed on the orders of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
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