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Ronnie Chatah hosts The Beirut Banyan podcast, a series of storytelling and conversation-driven episodes covering all that is modern Lebanese history. He founded the WalkBeirut tour, an outdoor narration of Beirut’s rich and troubled past. His recent writings have appeared in NOWLebanon, L’Orient Today, The National, and Newlines magazine.
Alliance: Lebanon needs “Change” and “Opposition” to work together
“Change” is an economics-driven pursuit for local accountability and social justice, and “Opposition” is a politically focused mission with geopolitics at its heart. “Change” cannot reform the system on its own, and “Opposition” cannot challenge regional considerations alone. Together, however, they potentially hold a narrow majority — 65 seats, combined — against the 63 belonging to a Hezbollah-led coalition. And there is an opportunity, today, to bring these two movements together through a parliamentary alliance.
