Episode 4 - Making Sense of the Blackouts

Bassel Akar discusses with LCPS Researcher Christelle Barakat Lebanon's public education system in times of war and crisis, focusing on the need for reforms and ways of increasing inclusion and sustainability in the schools. Bassel Akar is a Research Associate at the Center for A ...  Show more

In this podcast, Carlos Naffah speaks with LCPS researcher Rasha Akel about the dynamics between Syrian refugees and Lebanese returnees in Ghobeiry, a municipality in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Naffah discusses a study he conducted after the 2023 conflict which explores how these ...  Show more

In episode two of Hide Park, Minister of Energy Walid Fayad discusses his plan for solving the energy crisis in Lebanon, and the possible ways to overcome the systematic obstacles that have come to plague the sector. 

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman talks with Jessica Obeid, energy consultant, a senior global advisor at the London-based consultancy Azure Strategy, and an academy associate with Chatham House's Energy, Environment, and Resources Programme. They talk about the Lebanese power sec ...  Show more

In the fifth episode of The Lebanese Politics Podcast, presenters Benjamin Redd and Nizar Hassan breakdown the results of the Lebanese parliamentary elections with analysis on which parties lost out and which made gains, why the Western media narrative on Hezbollah's electoral su ...  Show more

Discussion of Lebanon's industry begins at 17:00. Ben and Nizar are joined remotely this week by Paul Abi Nasr, member of the board of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists and CEO of Polytextile, to discuss the Lebanese industrial sector over the past few decades, the impac ...  Show more