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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 ...

Lokman Slim.—AFP BEIRUT: A prominent Lebanese publisher and vocal critic of Hezbollah was found shot dead in his car on Thursday morning, a brazen killing that sparked fears of a return to political violence in this country gripped by social and economic upheaval. The body of 58-year-old Lokman Slim, a long-time Shia political activist and researcher, was slumped over on the passenger seat with multiple wounds from gunshots fired at close range, security and forensic officials said. According to AP, Slim had been missing for hours since late Wednesday and his family posted social media mess...

SHARE The last time I saw Lokman Slim, the Lebanese publisher and independent activist, was a few weeks ago, on a sunny midweek day in Beirut. He was standing next to Riad Al Soloh square, the site of so many protests, smoking a cigarette, holding two pieces of paper in his hand and waiting to go inside a building housing many regional and international studios for one of his live interviews. I was wearing my mask and several layers when I spotted him, and feared he might not recognise me through it all. “I recognised you since I saw you taking a picture of the graffiti on the wall,” he s...