On Thursday 17 October 2019, thousands of exasperated Lebanese citizens took to the streets of Beirut in protest. The spark was the government’s latest plan to impose taxes on the popular and free app..
Jeffrey G. Karam and Sana Tannoury-Karam
Jeffrey G. Karam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University. He is also an Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Middle East Initiative. He is the editor of the forthcoming book The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year. You can follow him on Twitter @JGKaram.
Sana Tannoury-Karam is a Lecturer in History at the Lebanese American University and an Early Career Fellow at the Arab Council for Social Sciences. Her article “This War is Our War: Antifascism among Lebanese Leftist Intellectuals” was recently published in the Journal of World History. You can follow her on Twitter @Sanatkaram.