Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 34)
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- Democratic Palestine : 22 (ص 34)
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Hussein Mroweh
Communist Philosopher Assassinated
On February 17th, as battles raged between the Lebanese progressive
forces and the reactionary Amal movement, thugs entered the West
Beirut apartment of Comrade Hussein Mroweh. Their weapons
equipped with silencers, these criminals murdered the 77 year old
communist philosopher in cold blood, in front of his wife and sons.
The Lebanese Communist Party held Amal responsible for this
assassination which follows other killings of communists and
patriots.
With the assassination of Hussein
Mroweh, a severe blow was dealt to
Arab culture, thought and knowledge.
A brief look at the life and works of
Comrade Mroweh gives ample
testimony to this.
Hussein Mroweh was born in 1910,
in the town of Hadatha in the Bint Jbail
district of South Lebanon, now part of
the occupied border zone. His father
was a prominent Shiite sheikh. In 1924,
Hussein went to Al Najaf in Iraq, to
study Islamic philosophy; he graduated
in 1938. From the days of his youth, he
wrote literary and philosophical articles
for several magazines and newspapers.
While in Iraq, he participated in the
1948 mass uprising against British col-
onialism and the monarchy. After the
restoration of the treacherous govern-
ment of Nouri Al Said, he was deported
to Lebanon. Here he participated in
establishing several progressive magazi-
nes and newspapers.
In the fifties, Hussein’s nationalist
sentiments developed further and he
adopted communist thought. He joined
the Lebanese Communist Party in
1956. Later, in 1964, he was elected a
member of the party’s central commit-
tee, a position he retained until his
martyrdom. He wrote regularly for the
party’s theoretical journal, Al Tariq
(The Path), and became its chief
manager, a position he held until his
death. Hussein Mroweh was also one of
the founders of the Lebanese Writers’
Union and the Arab Writers’ Union.
He was a member of the Afro-Asian
Writers’ Union and the Afro-Asian
Solidarity Committee. He was active in
the World Peace Council, and one of
the founders of the Lebanese-Soviet
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Friendship Society.
writings, he played an active, militant
role during the siege of Beirut.
Through his
MAJOR WORKS
The literary, philosophical and
analytical writings of Comrade Hussein
Mroweh have made important con-
tributions to Arab thinking. Among his
writings are: With the Caravan, 1958,
about ‘literature and life; The Iraqi
Revolution, 1958, a study; and Literary
Issues, 1956, studies which contributed
to the establishment of a new trend in
Arab literary critique. Comrade
Mroweh used the Marxist thinking he
adopted in his works, such as Critique
Studies in the Light of the Objective
Method, 1965, and his contribution to
Studies of Islam, 1979.
In 1948, he published New Titles For
Old Issues, a research in Arab and
Islamic heritage, and in 1985, Our
Heritage and How To Know It. His
great work, Material Trends in Arab
and Islamic Philosophy, two volumes
of 2,000 pages, was published in 1978.
This was a breakthrough in the field of
modern research, that provided scien-
tific understanding of the Arab and
Islamic philosophical heritage in rela-
tion to the development of the society.
Comrade Hussein Mroweh was
awarded numerous prizes for his
works. Among these was the Friends of
the Book Society prize in 1965 for his
Critique Study, and the Lotus prize of
the Afro-Asian Writers’ Union in 1980.
He was then elected as a member of the
international committee that awards
the latter prize. He was awarded a
medal of literature and art by the
Presidium of the People’s Council of
the People’s Democratic Republic of
Yemen. In 1985, the Union of Arab
Writers awarded him the Beirut prize
for his intellectual role in the siege of
Beirut. Upon his receiving the Beirut
prize, the nationalist Education
Minister of Lebanon, Dr. Selim Hoss,
awarded Hussein Mroweh the Golden
Medal of Knowledge of the first order.
HUSSEIN MROWEH’S
IDEAS LIVE ON
The Lebanese Communist Party has
announced that it holds the Amal
movement responsible for the
assassination of Hussein Mroweh. In
their heinous crime, the Amal gangsters
made a serious miscalculation. While
they succeeded in murdering one of the
most distinguished figures of pro-
gressive Arab thought and a prominent
Lebanese patriot, their bullets will not
succeed in silencing Hussein Mroweh’s
ideas and principles. These will live on
and be spread even more widely by all
those who have read his books and
witnessed his life of progressive strug-
gle. As a martyr, as in life, Hussein
Mroweh stands as an example of the
growing progressive tradition in the
Arab national liberation movement.
His assassination serves to further ac-
centuate the need for all progressive
and nationalist forces to unite in op-
posing the reactionary project Amal is
trying to impose in Lebanon. e - هو جزء من
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