Salim Lawzi

Salim Lawzi (Arabic: سليم اللوزي) (1922 – c. March 1980), alternatively written Salim El-Lozi or Salim Al-Lawzi, was a well-known Lebanese journalist and publisher, founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly Al Hawadeth magazine. Lawzi died after being kidnapped on 25 February 1980, then brutally tortured and murdered. His body was found on 4 March 1980. Neither precise date of death nor the identity of killers was revealed, but it was widely suspected that the assassination was ordered and/or executed by the Syrian Intelligence.

Lawzi had established a number of publications, and most notably the Lebanese Al Hawadeth magazine (Arabic: الحوادث), which he had turned into one of the biggest and most prominent pan-Arab political weekly publications.