Joseph Samaha

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Joseph Samaha (* 1949 in the Metn Mountains , Lebanon , † 2007 in London ) was a Lebanese journalist.

life and work

Samaha was born in 1949 in a village in the Metn Mountains north of Beirut . He attended a school in Beirut and then graduated from the Lebanese University with a degree in political science . His career as a journalist began with the newspaper Al-Hurriya , from which he switched to the left-wing As-Safir in 1974 . After a few years with the Al-Watan newspaper , he began writing again for As-Safir in 1980 . From 1984 to 1995 he lived in Paris , where he was editor-in-chief of the Palestinian magazine Al-Yawm As-Sabi , and he also wrote for the all-Arab newspaper al-Hayat . In 1995 he returned to Beirut, where he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper As-Safir from 2001 to 2006 . There he wrote the daily column Al-Khatt Al-Ahmar (The Red Line). In 2006 he founded the daily Al-Akhbar and was henceforth its editor-in-chief. He died of a heart attack in the London house of a Lebanese journalist friend.

Samaha was a staunch opponent of US policy in the Middle East and supported the Palestinians against Israel . After Rafik Hariri's assassination in 2005, he sided with the pro-Syrian and anti-western camp led by Hezbollah .

He left behind his wife and adult children Oumayya and Ziad.

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personal data
SURNAME Samaha, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Metn Mountains , Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH 2007
Place of death London