Syrian refugees in Lebanon: “You can’t just put people in trucks and drive them back”. “Beirut is known for carrying on even in crises” “We are heading towards a lost generation’s situation’ “The Middle East is our neighborhood, the distances are not that far that far,” says Michael Bauer, Middle East expert for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Lebanon.
The presence of 1.5 to two million predominantly Sunni Syrians is changing the demographic situation.