Sarkis Na`um

To Western correspondents in Lebanon, it was fashionable to quote Sarkis Na`um back in the 1980s, when he was read, and when An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people)) was the leading daily in Beirut.  Those times are long gone.  After serving as a propaganda outlet for `Abdul-Halim Khaddam for years, no one reads him anymore.  Plus, he is seen as archaic.