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Sanction elites to stop Lebanon from becoming a failed state

Sanction elites to stop Lebanon from becoming a failed state

Lebanon is four years into one of the worst financial crises in modern history, and in that time the country’s powerbrokers – the politicians, bankers and sectarian leaders – have been actively taking steps to speed the country’s descent into the abyss. To be clear: Lebanon’s dissolution will...

‘They’ Have Names

‘They’ Have Names

The Lebanese have known since at least the 1960s that the banks run the country, but we have known this in the abstract. We have used the vague pronoun hineh, ‘them’, to describe these de factor rulers. But Lebanon is not ‘theirs’ and ‘they’ have a name, a face, bank accounts, and registered...