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Intibah and Ghassan Kadi

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Introduction	Ghassan is from a political activist family in Lebanon. A Lebanese national with both parents born in Syria, with family equally spread across both, due to his family and community background, felt he could better express himself more freely, tackling highly contentious subjects, by using a pseudonym. His writings are informed by his interesting, rich, but traumatic background. He grew up in the household of a very influential SSNP figure. It was young Ghassan who urged his father to end the SSNP - Assad feud. In 1976, he told his father; “they broke your bones in jail because you said “Tahiya Suria” and yet your party still allows this wedge to continue between it and the Syrian government.” It took two days for his father to start making initial contacts with Syrian officials which eventually led to the first meeting of Abdullah Saade, the then SSNP President, and Abdul Halim Khaddam and, the rest is history. That was the first ever link between the national movement in Lebanon and the Syrian government after the rift Jumblatt created. After that, all the other parties joined in. https://intibahwakeup.blogspot.com/2017/11/background-of-ghassan-and-intibah-kadi.html
Interests	In the early years of the war, little if anything that challenged the enemy's narrative was being written in English by a native of Syria or Lebanon. Seekers struggled to find ways to glean information and insights from indigenous sources that were written in Arabic and Ghassan Kadi played a key role in filling this void.

Introduction

Ghassan is from a political activist family in Lebanon. A Lebanese national with both parents born in Syria, with family equally spread across both, due to his family and community background, felt he could better express himself more freely, tackling highly contentious subjects, by using a pseudonym. His writings are informed by his interesting, rich, but traumatic background. He grew up in the household of a very influential SSNP figure. It was young Ghassan who urged his father to end the SSNP - Assad feud. In 1976, he told his father; “they broke your bones in jail because you said “Tahiya Suria” and yet your party still allows this wedge to continue between it and the Syrian government.” It took two days for his father to start making initial contacts with Syrian officials which eventually led to the first meeting of Abdullah Saade, the then SSNP President, and Abdul Halim Khaddam and, the rest is history. That was the first ever link between the national movement in Lebanon and the Syrian government after the rift Jumblatt created. After that, all the other parties joined in. https://intibahwakeup.blogspot.com/2017/11/background-of-ghassan-and-intibah-kadi.html

Interests

In the early years of the war, little if anything that challenged the enemy's narrative was being written in English by a native of Syria or Lebanon. Seekers struggled to find ways to glean information and insights from indigenous sources that were written in Arabic and Ghassan Kadi played a key role in filling this void.