Samir Kassir Foundation

The Samir Kassir Foundation is a Lebanese non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded on February 1, 2006. It is named after Samir Kassir, a prominent Lebanese journalist and historian assassinated in Beirut on June 2, 2005. Its main focus is the promotion and protection of freedom of expression, freedom of media and freedom of culture through the SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom, which has become the largest center to monitor violations against journalists and artists in the Arab Levant as well as a reference for research on journalism and for training media professionals and enhancing their skills.