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The Hello and welcome to Brokeonomics.

Now, I need to be schooled on some basic realities,

and the man to do that is Faraz.

Farras, thank you for joining me.

My pleasure. I'll tell the audience why do that is, is Farras, thank you for joining me. My pleasure.

I'll tell the audience why I said to you, I think we need to have a chat.

It's on two subjects, or two very related subjects.

The first is I have a very hazy understanding of Lebanon.

Because when I was a small child, Lebanon, well, Beirut,

Beirut was basically a euphemism for violence and conflict.

So, you know, and in the disconnected, you know, miles away west, you know, that would manifest as, you know,

two people were having an argument, somebody else walking in so it was like Beirut.

It was just a term for there is great conflict.

It was a byword for chaos and conflict.

Yes.

Yes.

And I'm vaguely aware that there was a conflict.

And I'm vaguely aware that there was a conflict and I'm vaguely aware that Lebanon had been a

fantastic country before that point. Yes. It was sort of described as the Paris of the Middle

East. Yes. It had a large Christian population and Muslim immigration kept on going up and eventually bad things happened.

So I'd like to understand that. And the reason I'd like to understand that is because the more I hear

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