Front page of Saïd Akl’s tabloid newspaper, Lebnaan, written in his proposed Latin-based alphabet. Issue 686 was published on September 29, 1989.
He was known, quite paradoxically, both for his Arabic prose and his advocacy of a Latin-based Lebanese alphabet. His Phoenician-centered nationalism and rejection of the Arabness of Lebanon sparked controversy.
Saïd Akl (1912–2014) was a Lebanese poet, writer, playwright and language reformer.
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