Sunday, February 19, 2006

Who are they? An-Nahar's Syrians. There is a group of Syrian writers who make their living by parroting the dogmas of An-Nahar in An-Nahar (and Hariri rag Al-Mustaqbal), and reinforcing the racism and chauvinism of the newspaper against Syrians and Palestinians. Syrian writer Nazih Abu `Afsh once wrote about them in Al-Adab. They are not even good writers. And it is ironic that this newspaper, An-Nahar, which has an unsavory record against ALL Palestinians and ALL Syrians, and which is responsible for the racist anti-Syrian agitations (and its deadly consequences) in Lebanon, is now suddenly eager to publish Syrian voices.