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Today, Thursday, death was absent from the great journalist George Bashir, who suffered a heart attack as a result of complications from his infection with the “Corona” virus, which kidnapped a voice that had been recorded in the ears of radio listeners ” Monte Carlo International “during the sinister years of war, and a daring pen made the word a more deadly weapon than Weapons of war that bravely covered its events.
George Bashir was the voice of the radio that screamed in times of war, while the ears went to the small radio station waiting for its messages that documented moments of war, its details and developments.
From the French capital Paris, George Bashir worked with journalists Philip Abi Akl and the late Fawzi Mubarak to establish the “Central News Agency”, which was the first private Lebanese news agency before moving its headquarters to Beirut, and still is at the forefront of the media. He has also written for various newspapers and magazines, including Al-Diyar, Al-Afkar, and Al-Gomhoria.
The deceased worked as treasurer of the Press Union and knew his human sense and his passion for serving the people, through the establishment of the clinic “Our Lady of the Lord” in the area of Ghadir de Jounieh, and supervised it directly to provide all medical and health services.
The Press Union described the afternoon in a statement in which it considered that “the shock of Bashir’s departure is a great national and media loss, coinciding with the date of the electoral session of the new Union Council, which would later hold the inauguration of his building, and that the late colleague had the white hand in convincing the late engineer Raymond Najjar to sponsor “At the cost of its restoration and rehabilitation, and adding two new floors.
The statement added: “On this occasion, we can only offer our sincere condolences to their children Pierre and Nader and their families, large and small.”
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For his part, the head of the Publishers Union said in a statement: “Colleague George Bashir will be absent while Lebanon suffers from its pains and dignities, and it is the country that loved and served with free speech and audacious position, triumphing for its causes in the press and media in Lebanon, the Arab world and the expanding countries. “
He added: “The great deceased did not leave a forceful event at the Lebanese, Arab and international levels from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, except that he covered it for the benefit of the main institutions in which he worked. An initiator, intrusive, courageous , with a wide network of relationships that he mocked for the good and social work “. In his region, Kesserwan-El Fotouh, his city, Jounieh, and his hometown, Ghadir.
He concluded: “With the departure of George Bashir I lost a friend, brother and colleague. My relationship with him lasted for half a century, and the Lebanese Press Union lost one of its pillars that was dedicated to serving and strengthening its position. The media in Lebanon also lost one of its prominent faces that left its mark and registered an attendance, And wrote in the ink of suffering the story of its success. ”
The family of “Lebanon 24” expresses its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased and to the Lebanese media.
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