Lebanese Elections Part Two: The Debrief

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People across Lebanon cast their votes last Sunday in an election that was meant to be different. 

So much has happened since the last poll, in 2018, when familiar faces were elected from parties largely made up of the same people who had fought the civil war decades ea ...

In Lebanon's first election since the Oct. 17 uprising, voters sent a sizable contingent of change candidates to Parliament, while clipping the wings of both Amal and the Free Patriotic Movement. Nizar and Ben take a look at the vote, its translation to seats in Parliament, the n ...  Show more

In the first episode of The Lebanese Politics Podcast, presenters Benjamin Redd and Nizar Hassan introduce listeners to the complex ins and outs of the Lebanese political system and the issues that will be in play in the run up to the first Lebanese parliamentary elections for al ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Sami Atallah, the founding director of The Policy Initiative in Beirut. They talk about Lebanon's three year old financial crisis, its struggle with political accountability, and where change might come from. Then, Jon continues the conversatio ...  Show more