Kassir

Keenan called Kassir "a clear threat to public safety."

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"Six years ago we launched the 'Arab spring' first mentioned by assassinated Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir," whose murder was followed by the brutal snuffing out of another Lebanese media figure Gebran Tueni, said Roula Mikhael, at the opening of the event.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

"Six years ago we launched the 'Arab spring' first mentioned by assassinated Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir," whose murder was followed by the brutal snuffing out of another Lebanese media figure Gebran Tueni, said Roula Mikhael, at the opening of the event.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

Annahar lost publisher Gebran Tueni and another ardent Syria critic who wrote scathing columns, Samir Kassir, just months apart.

Magda Abu-Fadil: Nayla Tueni Mixes Journalism and Politics in Lebanon's Murky Waters Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

"Six years ago we launched the 'Arab spring' first mentioned by assassinated Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir," whose murder was followed by the brutal snuffing out of another Lebanese media figure Gebran Tueni, said Roula Mikhael, at the opening of the event.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

"Six years ago we launched the 'Arab spring' first mentioned by assassinated Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir," whose murder was followed by the brutal snuffing out of another Lebanese media figure Gebran Tueni, said Roula Mikhael, at the opening of the event.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

Mikhael, who writes for the daily An-Nahar, home to both Kassir and Tueni, and who heads the Maharat Foundation that hosted the IFEX conference, was referring to the uprising by Lebanese citizens in 2005 aimed at ending 30 years of Syrian tutelage.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

Mikhael, who writes for the daily An-Nahar, home to both Kassir and Tueni, and who heads the Maharat Foundation that hosted the IFEX conference, was referring to the uprising by Lebanese citizens in 2005 aimed at ending 30 years of Syrian tutelage.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

Mikhael, who writes for the daily An-Nahar, home to both Kassir and Tueni, and who heads the Maharat Foundation that hosted the IFEX conference, was referring to the uprising by Lebanese citizens in 2005 aimed at ending 30 years of Syrian tutelage.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011

Mikhael, who writes for the daily An-Nahar, home to both Kassir and Tueni, and who heads the Maharat Foundation that hosted the IFEX conference, was referring to the uprising by Lebanese citizens in 2005 aimed at ending 30 years of Syrian tutelage.

Magda Abu-Fadil: IFEX Conferees Told Media Freedom Must Be Preserved Magda Abu-Fadil 2011