محمد الصالح

Today our cultural strategy is based on the fact that Lebanon, for Syria, is a partner in the great civilizational act that Syria offered to the civilizations of the Mediterranean, and in the making of Arab consciousness in modern times, through poetry, the novel, thought and the arts, and it is also a partner for Syria in the strategic role assigned to it now and in the future.

If you ask me what is the cultural role in Syria's development and ensuring it does not return to the black pages folded by the Syrian revolution? I will say that those pages have been torn and will never return. You will ask me what are the guarantees? Culture is the guarantee.

I wanted my first appearance in the Lebanese press to be from the platform of the venerable An-Nahar newspaper, in recollection and appreciation of its great historical role in defending the freedom of Syrians, through its writers and intellectuals, and through its supplement, which alone published articles and research by Syrians rejecting injustice and tyranny, when horizons were blocked and vocal cords were cut.