The Middle East Briefing – May 2022
Last weekend (15 May) citizens of Lebanon voted in parliamentary elections, for the first time since the 2019 “17 October Protests” over economic mismanagement and the unaccountability of political elites. Although there is wholesale anger with the politicians who are blamed for Lebanon’s economic crisis and its 2020 Beirut explosion, there was much uncertainty over this election. Former Prime Minister […]