Patrick Seale

Prof. Tim Anderson
Global Research

 
 
Editor’s Note: Intifada Palestine is republishing this article in remembrance of the late Patrick Seale who passed away yesterday April 11, 2014 at the age of 83 after suffering from brain cancer.  He had many skills – as author, journalist, broadcaster, Middle East historian, arts aficionado and dealer and literary agent. But most notably he was the English-speaking world’s foremost chronicler and interpreter of Syria, its troubled modern history and its leadership during the past 44 years that of the al-Assad family, father Hafez and son Bashar.

London, (SANA) British journalist and author Patrick Seale passed away Friday after a long struggle with cancer.
Seale who showed special interest in the Middle East affairs, was considered one of the prominent supporters to the Palestinian Cause as he considered it as “the cornerstone of the Arab dignity and Identity.”
He has criticized Arab rich countries for not pressuring the US and Europe to achieve justice for the Palestinians , asserting the solution calls for the two states has practically foiled.