We're with Asser Khattab for Episode 150 of The Beirut Banyan.

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We discuss his reporting from Beirut and how his own relationship to Lebanon changed as the uprising took hold.

We also talk about identity, and why the protests that followed 17 October 2019 made him feel - for the first time - at home.

Asser is a freelance journalist currently living in Paris. He is a former Washington Post reporter and Financial Times Middle East news assistant.

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