Mahdi Amel

Hassan Abdullah Hamdan (Arabic: حسن عبد الله حمدان), more commonly known by his pseudonym '''Mahdi 'Amel''' (Arabic: مهدي عامل), (Harouf, Lebanon 1936 – Beirut, Lebanon 18 May 1987) was a Lebanese Marxist philosopher, historian and militant in the second half of the 20th century.

'Amel was a professor of philosophy at the Lebanese University in Beirut, and a prominent member of both the Lebanese Communist Party and the Union of Lebanese Writers. He also contributed to the magazine ''al-Tariq'', the mouthpiece of the Lebanese Communist Party.

'Amel was assassinated at the age of 51, amidst the violence and chaos of the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990). Provided by Wikipedia