0:00 Intro
1:37 How We Met
6:07 Where We Are Today
18:41 Appetite for Change
23:57 Politics as Usual
30:49 Hope
35:38 Special Tribunal for Lebanon
40:51 Secularism & Sectarianism
47:02 Online Tirades
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We're with Mazen El-Hassan for Episode 191 of The Beirut Banyan.
We discuss the symbolism of how we met; political developments in recent weeks; whether there remains an appetite for fundamental change; politics as usual vs radical change; hope persisting despite immense economic constraints; the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's upcoming verdict; notions of secularism vs sectarianism; and the benefits and disadvantages of online tirades.
Mazen El-Hassan is a graduate from Kingston University. He is the elder son of Wissam El-Hassan, Lebanon's former Minister of Interior, assassinated on 19 October 2012.
My father and Mazen's are buried side by side in Martyrs Square.
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Music by Marc Codsi. Graphics by Sara Tarhini.
