Villa Slim Becomes a Cultural Tribute to a Journalist Shot Dead Dead in Lebanon Published February 23rd, 2021 - 07:05 GMT
Lokman Slim’s killing is a personal tragedy (Twitter)
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Somewhere nearby, several dogs start barking.
Villa Slim sits not far from the street sign welcoming motorists to Haret Hreik. If this municipality just south of Beirut exists in the popular imagination, it’s as a “Hezbollah stronghold.”
It’s a Saturday and Villa Slim is quiet. The garden is still adorned by flower wreaths set down during the Feb. 10 memorial marking the death of Lokman Slim, whose bullet-riddled body had been found in south Lebanon a few days before.
Leaders of Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Börsenverein, supported by the International Publishers Association, condemn the killing of Lokman Slim on February 4 in the village of Addoussieh.
In Beirut’s downtown Nijmeh Square. Image – Marco Ramerini
‘A Fearless, Outspoken, and Committed Fighter’
In a report from Reuters Beirut, we learned of a protest on Saturday (February 6), demanding an investigation into the killing of anti-Hezbollah activist Lokman Slim, a publisher, critic, and documentary filmmaker. Those protesters’ demand is joined by many in the world publishing community.
Lokman Slim. Image: Dar Al Jadeed
Slim, as many
Publishing Perspectives readers know, was found dead in his car on Thursday (February 4) in southern Lebanon’s village of Addoussieh. He had been shot to death. He was 58.
Remembering Lokman And Honoring His Struggle
February 8, 2021 | By Alberto M. Fernandez
In the wake of his murder last week, some apologists for the terrorist group Hizbullah have sought to downplay Lokman Slim as some sort of nobody. He was actually a bigger man than most of the big names that make headlines from Lebanon because he combined three extremely powerful, rare – and for Hizbullah – dangerous personal attributes: He was a man who could not be bought, he was a man without fear, and he was a man with something to say.
I first met Lokman 20 years ago when, as a mid-level US diplomat based in Amman, I visited Beirut book publishing houses. My purview at the US Embassy in Jordan included the State Department s Arabic Book Program, which had once been based in Beirut, before the Lebanese Civil War. Lokman and his sister Rasha, a dynamic figure in her own right, ran a wonderful Arabic publishing house, Dar al-Jadeed.[1] The beautifully designed books selected by Lokman an
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Lokman Slim: daring Lebanese activist, admired intellectual
By AFP - Feb 05,2021 - Last updated at Feb 05,2021
BEIRUT Lebanese intellectual Lokman Slim, found shot dead on Thursday at age 58, was an outspoken critic of the Shiite movement Hizbollah and an advocate for preserving the memory of his country s civil war.
The son of a prominent lawyer and an Egyptian mother, Slim was an activist, writer, publisher and filmmaker, as well as a leading secular voice in the Shiite Muslim community.
He advocated curbing the influence of Hizbollah, the pro-Iran and anti-Israel political party and armed group that has millions of followers in Lebanon but is labelled a terrorist group by the US, EU and other governments.