The new book by Lebanese communications consultant and former ad-man Ramsay Najjar, “Views, Reviews, and Previews”, in intellectual association with Executive, is a tour de force of theories, recommendations and projections on the pivotal role of communications and journalism in the history of humanity, as well as in the unfolding of the Arab uprisings. Executive sat with the author to chat about his latest work. What motivated you to write this book? The driving force that pushed me to write this book was that I discovered, to my surprise, that we lacked a serious source on the deed of communications in this part of the world. A reference sounds a bit too academic, but this was the driving force. But that was the second reason, the less important. The first was the ‘Arab Spring’. I always had a theory that in this part of the world, [with maturity of legislative,
