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Lebanon, the black hole of names

2020-08-21T23:13:26.168Z

The population census is sometimes a political weapon. It happens in countries with significant minorities, and Lebanon is the paradigmatic case. Deliberate demographic ignorance partly explains the current crisis

A woman on a balcony of a house damaged by the explosion in the port of Beirut.WAEL HAMZEH / EFE

The name index to Pity the Nation , by Robert Fisk, a landmark work on the Lebanese civil war, seems like a prophecy: actors of the time seize power, sometimes friends with former rivals, 30 years after the end of the contest and the publication of the book. President Aoun , the ca ...

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