0:00 Intro

1:50 Day to Day Routine

6:54 Personal Evolution

24:38 The Wider Story

39:00 'Uniqueness'

54:45 Political Reform

1:00:54 Localism

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We're with Tamer Aboul-Hosn for Episode 196 of The Beirut Banyan.

We discuss his recent Medium piece "On the Arab Identity and Its Discontents: A Personal Reflection and a Survey of Christian Perspectives" and dive into the wider story of political autonomy, pluralism and competing narratives that helped shape Lebanon's minorities relationship to the state, in particular the Maronite Christian experience.

Tamer shares his own political evolution and the literature that helped shape his views on Arab nationalism and Lebanese nationalism, and an appreciation for non-Arab languages and communities in the Middle East. He also reflects on his personal curiosity of other minorities' insecurities, and his belief in localism and local expression as opposed to centralized governance and pan-Arab persuasion.

Tamer Aboul-Hosn is an International Studies graduate at UC San Diego.

The piece referred to in this episode is accessible below:

https://medium.com/@levantophile/on-the-arab-identity-and-its-discontents-a-personal-reflection-and-a-survey-of-christian-163ed3bafd72

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