Samir Kassir, on June 2, 2005, right before his assassination. Photo courtesy of the owner.
"Samer Kassar" stays focused on the road. A glance in the rearview mirror proves his suspicions are right: a car is following him. It’s the fall of 2001, and "Jamil S., a bigwig in the intelligence services" in Lebanon, doesn’t miss a thing.Based on the synopsis of a first crime novel found on Samir Kassir’s iBook, this imagined scene speaks volumes — both about that era and about the An-Nahar columnist himself.In Lebanon under Syrian occupation after the Civil War, the Lebanese-Syrian-French-Palestinian journalist was widely known to be followed by agents of the Lebanese-Syrian intelligence services because of his outspoken stance against Assad’s regime, whose troops were stationed in Lebanon, and its loyal henchmen infiltrated the inner circles of the Lebanese government.Kassir, the former editor-in-chief of...
"Samer Kassar" stays focused on the road. A glance in the rearview mirror proves his suspicions are right: a car is following him. It’s the fall of 2001, and "Jamil S., a bigwig in the intelligence services" in Lebanon, doesn’t miss a thing.Based on the synopsis of a first crime novel found on Samir Kassir’s iBook, this imagined scene speaks volumes — both about that era and about the An-Nahar columnist himself.In Lebanon under Syrian occupation after the Civil War, the Lebanese-Syrian-French-Palestinian journalist was widely known to be followed by agents of the Lebanese-Syrian intelligence services because of his outspoken stance against Assad’s regime, whose troops were stationed in Lebanon, and its loyal henchmen infiltrated the inner circles of the Lebanese government.Kassir, the former editor-in-chief...