Journalist, nerd. Co-host of @LebPoliticsPod.
Beirut
Joined October 2008
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Personal note: As of today, I have been removed as the managing editor of L'Orient Today. The publication's editorial direction and control will now be exercised by the editors-in-chief of L'Orient-Le Jour.
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We're back! And we brought reinforcements...
Excited to have my friend and colleague @timourazhari joining us for our fourth season!
Season four kicks off with episode 97, @Nizhsn, @benredd & @timourazhari take a closer look at Lebanon's coronavirus response, protests in Tripoli, the slaying of Lockman Slim, the port explosion six months on & stalled government formation ๐๏ธ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspoโฆ
Oh, hello!
Episode 96 will be available midnight! Masks are on but gloves are off as @benredd is joined by @timourazhari to discuss the latest on the investigation into the explosion at Beirut's port as the country awaits accountability four months on from the deadly blast ๐๏ธ
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I went to Tripoli today to speak to some of the approximately 270 Syrian families who were driven out of Bsharri after a Syrian man killed a Lebanese man in a personal dispute Monday. My latest: today.lorientlejour.com/artiโฆ via @lorienttoday
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Venezuelans implicated in a mind-bogglingly huge money laundering scheme, one of whom is wanted by Caracas and indicted in Andorra while another is the brother of a fugitive former oil czar, established a mysterious web of offshore firms in Lebanon bit.ly/3kN2DCw
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Had a great conversation with @Nizhsn and @benredd yesterday. We are all getting tired of talking about forensic audits, but it's important to document the details so we don't forget. Banking secrecy is a secondary issue at this point. The problem is there's no will to cooperate.
Episode 95 is out now! @Nizhsn & @benredd are joined by @AzarsTweets, NERD and finance professional, to talk the ins and outs of the postponed forensic audit of BDL, Lebanon's central bank (with honorable mention of the๐) ๐๏ธ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspoโฆ
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My latest: Aid checks were given to families of the victims of the Beirut port blast...but banks wouldn't cash them today.lorientlejour.com/artiโฆ via @lorienttoday
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In letters to/meetings with @hrw, #Lebanon's security forces denied wrongdoing during the #Beirut Aug8 protests that injured >700 & instead traded blame for the abuse
But overwhelming evidence we gathered contradicts their claims. Latest for @lorienttoday
today.lorientlejour.com/artiโฆ
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My latest: A Russian-organized conference in Damascus, with Lebanon's participation, seeks to promote Syrian refugee returns. I look at previous efforts to do this in Lebanon, why they haven't worked, and why this one likely won't either today.lorientlejour.com/artiโฆ via @lorienttoday
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Episode 94 is available now! @Nizhsn & @benredd analyze the sanctions against Bassil, the delays to BDL's forensic audit & government formation and the ongoing lack of accountability over the Beirut port explosion ๐๏ธ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspoโฆ
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It's not the first time Aoun's relations with the US reach such a low level. He was the scapegoat of a Syrian-American rapprochement over Lebanon in the late 1980s.
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According to @Legal_Agenda, families of victims killed in the Beirut port blast received relief payments three months later...by checks that the banks won't allow them to cash legal-agenda.com/%D8%B4%D9%8โฆ
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Private hospitals across #Lebanon are postponing surgeries and prioritizing certain treatments following a recent central bank decision requiring cash lira from medical importers
โWhy should the patient go through this?โ said Sami Rizk, CEO of @LAUMCRH
tinyurl.com/yygc34fl
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Indictments in the #BeirutBlast probe are set to be limited to low/mid-level officials charged with "willful negligence," judicial sources say.
This carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.
No top pol/security officials are officially suspects.
aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/2โฆ
