FREE MINDS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST

Sunday, March 23, 2003

On its front page, the Lebanese left-wing daily Al-Safir is showing photographs of Iraqi dead in Basra, including a boy whose head was partly blown away. While this may be predictable for the paper, increasingly the Lebanese press, including the more centrist Al-Nahar, is reflecting in its headlines the outrage in other Arab countries, whereas before it tended to take more of an observer's role.

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