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SHARE The last time I saw Lokman Slim, the Lebanese publisher and independent activist, was a few weeks ago, on a sunny midweek day in Beirut. He was standing next to Riad Al Soloh square, the site of so many protests, smoking a cigarette, holding two pieces of paper in his hand and waiting to go inside a building housing many regional and international studios for one of his live interviews. I was wearing my mask and several layers when I spotted him, and feared he might not recognise me through it all. “I recognised you since I saw you taking a picture of the graffiti on the wall,” he said. ....