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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: Will the Lebanese election be a turning point?
Description: People across Lebanon cast their votes last Sunday in an election that was meant to be different.Â
So much has happened since the last poll, in 2018, when familiar faces were elected from parties largely made up of the same people who had fought the civil war decades earlier.Â
First, the economy started to creak - and eventually collapsed. In 2019, hundreds of thousands of people across Lebanon rose up in a popular protest movement, apparently determined to change a political system that seemed to be pushing the country over a precipice.
Then, in August of...