Gebran Tueni speaking during the mass demonstration on March 14, 2005, in downtown Beirut. (Credit: Wissam Moussa/Annahar/AFP)
On June 3, 2005, Annahar newspaper organized a protest in downtown Beirut against the assassination of Samir Kassir, an emblematic journalist and key figure of the Cedar Revolution who had been killed just the day before. Wearing a grave expression, with a somber gaze, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Gebran Tueni, took out his pen and lifted it up toward the sky.Had the head of the Arabic-language daily already sensed that he might not survive the year?In any case, he — along with all the leaders of the March 14 movement, which was born in the wake of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination on Feb. 14, 2005 — had clearly received the message that the fight for freedom in Lebanon always comes at a steep price, even after Bashar al-Assad’s troops had withdrawn from the country that April. A ceremony marking 20 years A musical...
On June 3, 2005, Annahar newspaper organized a protest in downtown Beirut against the assassination of Samir Kassir, an emblematic journalist and key figure of the Cedar Revolution who had been killed just the day before. Wearing a grave expression, with a somber gaze, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Gebran Tueni, took out his pen and lifted it up toward the sky.Had the head of the Arabic-language daily already sensed that he might not survive the year?In any case, he — along with all the leaders of the March 14 movement, which was born in the wake of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination on Feb. 14, 2005 — had clearly received the message that the fight for freedom in Lebanon always comes at a steep price, even after Bashar al-Assad’s troops had withdrawn from the country that April. A ceremony marking 20 years A...
