Samir Kassir

One of the leading voices for progressive change in the Middle East, Samir Kassir (1960-2005) taught at the Institut des Sciences Politiques of the Universite Saint-Joseph in Beirut, worked as a journalist and editorial writer for the daily "An-Nahar" newspaper there, and was a co-founder of the Democratic Left Movement in Lebanon. The author of several other books, including "Being Arab, " Kassir was assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut in June 2005.

One of the leading voices for progressive change in the Middle East, Samir Kassir (1960-2005) taught at the Institut des Sciences Politiques of the Universite Saint-Joseph in Beirut, worked as a journalist and editorial writer for the daily "An-Nahar" newspaper there, and was a co-founder of the Democratic Left Movement in Lebanon. The author of several other books, including "Being Arab, " Kassir was assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut in June 2005. See less