Special envoy to Beirut
On June 1, 2021, a group of seven young people showed up at the old Ottoman building housing the Interior Ministry in the Hamra shopping district in West Beirut.
These four boys and three girls had asked a lawyer and a television crew to accompany them.
They were going to accomplish an important but rare formality among Lebanese youth: deposit the statutes and register a new political party, under the Ottoman law of 1909, copied from the French law of 1901 on associations, and of course maintained by the French mandate (1920-1943).
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The originality of this party is that it is not mono-denominational.
Of its seven founders, three are Shiites, two are Christians, one is Druze and one is Sunni.
Minteshreen is the name they chose for their party.
It is based on a play on words.
Min in Arabic means “since” and Teshreen means “October”.
Like the Thawra, the “revolution” of October 17, 2019,
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