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THREAD Lebanon has yet to take any steps to start building a productive economy. By contrast, it is moving fast to salvage what’s left of its rent economy by tapping

THREAD Beirut’s fast-moving, bottom-up disaster response has given the capital a much-needed injection of practical support and collective purpose. But this model also has pitfalls, which may prove self-defeating unless

THREAD As donor states gather to pledge aid to Lebanon, they must tread carefully, or risk rewarding a regime that has proven not just corrupt, but unwilling and incapable of

Given the scale of destruction, we feel it is relevant to share these raw excerpts from a short, informal interview we conducted on 6 August 2017 with a low-ranking port

THREAD Since March, the Syrian government has reacted to the covid epidemic primarily through measures designed to hide the problem from view. The result is that—as Syria now buzzes with

THREAD For years, governments who describe themselves as “friends of Lebanon” groomed the country’s ruling class to behave as it is doing today. Foreign officials now condemn Lebanese politicians for

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