Saadeh worked to stifle Lebanese nationalism but was betrayed and executed Beirut: At the French government archives in Nantes, the record of Antoun Saadeh — founder of the Syrian Social Nationa ...

So wrote Antoun Saadeh, one of the Arab World’s most prolific nationalists, from prison in 1935. Born in 1904 in Mount Lebanon, Saadeh’s political philosophy was shaped by the climate in ...