Several professors from the American University of Beirut wrote to me about my post on Samir Khalaf. Some stuff I can't use. But here is this account from one professor in Beirut: "Earlier this year, in a conference arranged by the architecture department at AUB, Khalaf got into an argument over the treatment of Syrian workers during the Blessed Cedar Revolution. In a moment of great lucidity and frankness, Khalaf burst out with a most amazing accusation: the Syrian workers in Lebanon were ‘the representatives of a serial killer regime.’ This seemed like a justification of the attacks on them – and this in a university which includes a number of Syrian students who must also be equally ‘representatives’ of this ‘serial killer regime.’ At least one student I know walked out in disgust."