0:00 Intro

12:42 Immediate vs Long-Term Political & Economic Issues

26:05 Time Constraints & Potential for a "Third" Option

35:51 Revolutionary Demands vs Needs for Reform

45:57 Life & Death

We're back with Joseph Bahout for Episode 158 of The Beirut Banyan.

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We discuss his recent Diwan / Carnegie Middle East Center piece “In Between Life and Death”, innovation needed among protestors continuing to push for political change, what negotiations with the IMF means for the ruling regime and civil society, and Covid-19’s impact on the uprising.

Joseph Bahout is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Music by Marc Codsi. Graphics by Sara Tarhini.