Shame on Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm. I am never ever defended Adonis or his political choices or expressions. Yet, look at this lousy interview with Al-Azm in the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons: he attacks Adonis for his "revived Shi`ism", when Adonis has been an atheist for years and his book of poetry Aghani Mihyar Ad-Dimashqi may be the most daring contemporary attack on God in Arabic. It is fitting for the new and improved Azm to attack the alleged Shi`ism of Adonis in a Saudi royal newspaper.