Tripoli Clashes: Its Poverty, Stupid

The complete absence of the security forces has created an atmosphere of lawlessness in Lebanon in general not only in the northern city Tripoli. North Lebanon contains regions of severe poverty and deprivation: a fact the Lebanese government(s) will never make public in their touristic advertisements. The recent wave of unrest is not new to Tripoli and some like to blame it on the Salafis … Continue reading Tripoli Clashes: Its Poverty, Stupid