Beirut
Lebanon is the country where worry and sadness is increasing the most in the world, according to a recent survey by data analytics firm Gallup.
Young people, who are paying a high price for an economy in free fall and the inertia of the political class, are emigrating en masse.
But despite the gloom, a thrill seems to be happening at universities across the country, some of which are among the region's most reputable.
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For the first time this fall, Lebanese students voted overwhelmingly for independent candidates in elections normally dominated by traditional political parties.
More than a year after gigantic anti-government demonstrations, the rejection of the political class is finally materializing.
"It's a message for the whole country: there is an alternative to these corrupt people,"
enthuses Mounzer Tabbarah, 21, recently elected to the student committee of the prestigious American University of Beirut (AUB) on
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