#Mahdi_Amel’s revival manifests ache for local revolutionaries
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A #Lebanese_Communist_Party rally outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) A Lebanese Communist Party rally outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
#Hassan_Hamdan, known as Mahdi Amel, is a mystery to those living outside of the region. A prolific individual, he was a poet, academic and a senior member of the Lebanese Communist Party. But it was his work as a Marxist theoretician – keen to incorporate its principles into the specific realities and particular contexts of West Asian society – that ensured his importance to #Lebanon and other Arabic speaking communities.
Yazan al-Saadi
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