Georges Haoui during a speech. Undated photo shared by the Lebanese Communist Party on social media.
On the morning of June 21, 2005, just before 10 a.m., Georges Hawi was going about his routine in his apartment on Mazraa Street, in Beirut’s Wata Mosseitbeh neighborhood on the city’s western side. At 10:30 a.m., he was due to meet a friend, Elias Atallah, at a nearby cafe the two men frequented. They had arranged the meeting urgently to discuss politics.Two days earlier, the March 14 Alliance — an anti-Syrian, pro-sovereignty coalition — had won a highly symbolic legislative election. For the first time since the end of the Civil War in 1990, free elections had taken place. These were the first polls held after the Cedar Revolution, which followed the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Feb. 14 of that year, and the withdrawal of Syrian troops after nearly 30 years of occupation. Memorial of another influential...
On the morning of June 21, 2005, just before 10 a.m., Georges Hawi was going about his routine in his apartment on Mazraa Street, in Beirut’s Wata Mosseitbeh neighborhood on the city’s western side. At 10:30 a.m., he was due to meet a friend, Elias Atallah, at a nearby cafe the two men frequented. They had arranged the meeting urgently to discuss politics.Two days earlier, the March 14 Alliance — an anti-Syrian, pro-sovereignty coalition — had won a highly symbolic legislative election. For the first time since the end of the Civil War in 1990, free elections had taken place. These were the first polls held after the Cedar Revolution, which followed the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Feb. 14 of that year, and the withdrawal of Syrian troops after nearly 30 years of occupation. Memorial of another...
