3 episodes
Inside Lebanon Paul Schlag & Wael Ayoubi
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"If you think you understand Lebanon, they have not explained it to you right." Following this motto, this podcast will not seek to explain Lebanon, but instead provide a platform for Lebanese people's perspectives on the things that move their country. Starting from the Beirut Blast in August 2020, this podcast will try to discover Lebanese politics and society from the perspective of Lebanese locals. It will focus on individual experiences beyond the headlines. As such, it is not a journalistic media, but a format through which the hearer experiences Lebanon from a native perspective. Music: Ana Wil Leyl by Robert Maalouf (1986). Licensed to Believe A. (on behalf of Voix de l'Orient), and 4 Music Rights Societies. Cover by Karl Mansour. Instagram: @karliseverywhere
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The October Revolution: "Talk about our cause."
In our first two episodes, we shed light on the explosion of August 4th and the situation in Beirut in the aftermath. The explosion marked the dramatic low point of a phase of economic, financial and political decline driven by the Lebanese political...
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After the Blast: "No one is the same anymore."
One month after the explosions, Beirut is still tumbling. The French president Macron has intervened to form a new government independent of the Shia militias Amal and Hezbollah. At the same time, repeated fires broke out at the harbor and in downtown,...
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Beirut Blast: "We should not have hope. We should have anger."
At 6:08pm, on August 4th 2020, Beirut was shook by the most powerful non-nuclear explosion since the end of the second world war. The blast caused at least 178 deaths, thousands of injuries, and left an estimated 300,000 people homeless. It was linked...