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Sep 2018
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Episode 18 - Historical figures: Bashir ...

The Lebanese Politics Podcast
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Bashir Gemayel begins at 15:10. The eighteenth episode of The Lebanese Politics Podcast has presenters Benjamin Redd and Nizar Hassan test out a new format for the podcast: an episode dedicated to a politically important historical figure in Lebanon. Bashir Gemayel, the president who was assassinated on September 14, 1982, just three weeks after being ele ... Show More
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