سمير قصير
Samir Kassir (, 5 May 1960 – 2 June 2005) was a Lebanese-Palestinian-French journalist of Al-Nahar and professor of history at Saint-Joseph University, who was an advocate of democracy and prominent opponent of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. He was assassinated in 2005 as part of a series of assassinations of anti-Syria Lebanese political figures such as Rafic Hariri and George Hawi.