Since the double explosion of August 4, 2020 in the port of Beirut, a tragic illustration of a political system plagued by patronage and corruption, Lebanon has been on the brink.
Gasoline, electricity, medicines, liquidity: everything is scarce in the former Switzerland of the Middle East, once so envied for its cultural ferment and its economic vitality.
How did the land of the Cedars come to this?
What are the problems underlying this unprecedented crisis that has been brewing for several years?
How do the unhealed wounds of the civil war (1975-1990) still haunt its inhabitants?
Meet the Lebanese
After more than a decade spent covering this region, first for the Associated Press agency, then for
Paris Match
, the great reporter Alfred de Montesquiou (Prix Albert-Londres 2012) has this time taken the camera to leave meet the Lebanese and probe their hopes, their fears, their anger.
Aired as part of the program "Un monde en
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