An-Nahar: the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people)

"“[At] our newspaper, we had two martyrs to defend democracy in Lebanon and then they treat us in this very nasty way,” says Elias Khoury, a respected author, editor of the cultural supplement and one of those being made redundant." So Elias Khury only discovered that there was a problem with An-Nahar when he was fired? Also, not every one who is assassinated is necessarily a fighter for democracy. Jubran Tuwayni, for one, was a fascist demagogue, literally in his case. An-Nahar never supported the freedom of the press in Lebanon, and aligned itself with the regime of Amin Gemayyel during the worst period. And when Samir Qasir was harassed by the Syrian-Lebanese security regime in Lebanon in the late 1990s, Jubran Tuwayni and Ghassan Tuwayni never supported Qasir. They rebuked him and and told him that he was causing trouble for An-Nahar (Qasir stayed at the house of Joseph Samahah at the time, and Samahah told me this). And as for the cultural supplement: it was good in the 1960s when was edited by Unsi Al-Hajj and published a variety of writers. The supplement under Khury is a right-wing, Lebanese chauvinist, obsessively anti-Syrian sheet, that published racist columns by Raymond Jbara against the Palestinian people and the Syrian people. I wrote about this in this Arabic article. (thanks Bart)