Beirut’s Protests are Forging a Post-Neoliberal Agenda, with Mona Fawaz

Lebanon is no stranger to political strife.  A country haunted by civil war, sectarianism, corruption, armed occupations, and governmental breakdown, it is almost always navigating a crisis. But even by its own standards, its current predicament threatens to throw the country into new and dangerous territory. Lebanon’s currency is collapsing and its banking sector is teetering. Electrical blackouts are lasting longer and longer as local governments struggle to maintain Lebanon’s i