

On Thursday, April 23, we will be discussing about “Lebanon: A State in Name, a Battleground in Reality.” This page assembles some information: materials, background, and comments.
- Materials:
- Nemer’s Musings on Lebanon
- Article by Ronnie Chatah in L’Orient-Le Jour (6 April 2026): Neutrality, a viable lifeline for Lebanon
- Post of a video by Imad Mughniyah posted on X by Hussain Abdul-Hussain with his comments
- Arabic text
- English translation
- What do we think of this post?
- Maryam Ishani’s Lebanon explainer on Instagram (Bahar)
- Ronnie Chatah’s interview with Charbel Hadas (Posted on Youtube in 2022)
- Data over time
- Population
- Worldbank figures since 1960
- demographics (Wikipedia)
- migration
- GDP per capita (Worldbank)
- Trade
- Politics
- Worldbank Governance Indicators (interactive data access, a country has to be chosen for data to appear – for example Lebanon.)
- Communities
- Population