The World Bank calls the situation a “deliberate depression orchestrated by the...
, only 46,799 actually voted. Will 2022 be any different? And more importantly, will a fresh pool of politicians be elected? The Lebanese diaspora could play a pivotal role to ensure change stands a chance.
I want to understand what is going on in Lebanon and how people are coping. I am concerned because my aging parents, friends and family members live there. Being so far away, I feel helpless and anxious. Is it as bleak and hopeless as it appears or is there a sliver of hope and light to latch on to? When my family fled Beirut in 1975 because of the civil war, we moved to London.
My spirit is sunken after our conversation but I want to hear an alternate perspective. I call my brother-in-law, Ziad Mawlawi, an interior designer in his late 50s who used to live in Oman and Saudi Arabia and has recently moved back to Lebanon to be closer to aging parents. He teaches in the design department of the Lebanese American University in Beirut. The first thing he decries is the change to professor salaries.
Walid Alami, a sought-after cardiologist in Beirut made the painful decision to emigrate to America in February. He is among the lucky ones. At 59, he is starting life anew. He had a thriving private practice in Arizona but decided to return to Lebanon in 2005 to give back to his country. When I called him, he had just arrived to Washington D.C, his new home. “I remember so clearly the incident that made me decide enough is enough.
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