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Itinerant looking for trends and links. Fellow @TheWilsonCenter. PhD @UniofBath. My views are my own,
Oct 18, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
ِA thread on #Lebanon: The depth of the protests are much more than expected & does not exclude any leader, including Nasrallah & Hariri. Protests took the political class by surprise, Hariri is expected to deliver a speech soon, here's where things stand politically: Joumblat wants Hariri to resign & Aoun wants him to convene the government, these contradictory requests are at the core of the country's political crisis, which has nothing to do with the protests: Hariri will have to decide whether to stay in the 2016 presidential deal or exit