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Article: Ayoon Wa Azan ("Blame It on the Italians".(Column)
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- Dar Al Hayat, International ed. (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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Byline: Jihad el-Khazen
I said yesterday that the Lebanese were the first outside Europe to become alert to the dangers of fascism and Nazism, and that they founded am anti-fascist league in the 1930s. This league had some of the leading intellectuals at the time as its members, such as Anton Thabet, Mohammad Ali Hamadeh, Taqi al-Din al-Solh and Jamil Makkawi.
A chronicler of popular history in Lebanon documented a Zajal [traditional Middle Eastern poem] from a seminar held by the league, to warn against fascism and Nazism, which loosely translates as: "We talk about fascism, but we forget about feudalism, and while we curse Mussolini and Hitler, we have ...