Hiba Dandachli, Chawki Azoury, Albert Kostanian, Bertrand Badie, Gisèle Khoury, Agnès Levallois, Michael Young, Lamia Moubayed-Bissat, Amin Maalouf, Stéphane Malsagne, Walid Charara, Saad Hariri, Yasser Arafat, Hafez al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah
The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those in power: protests cross religious boundaries as the Lebanese people curse corruption, nepotism, gross economic mismanagement and squandering of resources. How did the Land of Cedars, a country with so much to offer, allow itself to get into such a dire situation? And will it be able to bounce back?