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Aug 2018
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Episode 14 - Electricity crisis

The Lebanese Politics Podcast
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Electricity crisis begins at 11:51. The fourteenth episode of The Lebanese Politics Podcast has presenters Benjamin Redd and Nizar Hassan discuss news of the past week, including death threats against the governor of Baalbek-Hermel, Mireille Aoun-Hachem making a splash, and the latest on the waste and energy crises, with opposition to Beirut's waste-to-ener ... Show More
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