0:00 Intro

3:12 The Moment

13:28 Entrepreneurial Spirit

16:20 Importance of Lebanon

19:50 Serge Hochar

25:19 Yves Mourad

28:17 Father Joseph Fahed

30:02 Neila Bitar

32:12 Sandro Saadé

35:07 Ramzi Ghosn

37:37 Elizabeth Gilbert

44:41 Identity

We're with Michael Karam for Episode 230 of The Beirut Banyan.

Click to watch:

https://youtu.be/8O2mRYdS73s

We discuss the recently released film 'Wine and War', the wider story of Lebanese wine and entrepreneurial spirit interwoven in our history and identity.

Our conversation includes reflections of wine producers mentioned in the film and the background conflicts that define our modern era.

Michael Karam is a wine writer and author of 'Wines of Lebanon'.

Click on the following link to watch the movie

https://wineandwar.com

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Music by Marc Codsi. Graphics by Sara Tarhini.