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DESCRIPTION:Zoom Webinar ID: 917 5897 1523\nPasscode: bustani \n\nYouTube L
 ivestream: http://bit.ly/CISYouTube\n\n"Greed\, Graft and Gridlock: The Pol
 itical Economy of Lebanon's Financial Collapse"\n\nChristophe Abi-Nassif \n
 Lebanon Program Director\, Middle East Institute\n\nThere seems to be a con
 sensus in Lebanon that the country’s unfolding and ever-worsening financial
  collapse will be taught as a case study around the world one day. The coll
 apse itself however is not the product of a few years of public mismanageme
 nt and poor decision-making. Instead\, it's the result of three decades of 
 greed\, graft\, and gridlock\, where political agendas\, business interests
 \, and the weaponization of identity and religion fed off one another in a 
 carefully designed and protected system. Along the way\, everyday Lebanese 
 citizens have paid and continue to pay the price of exploitation and submis
 sion. How and why did Lebanon’s financial collapse unfold the way it did? C
 an the Lebanese society and economy still be saved? Where does Lebanon go f
 rom here?\n\nChristophe Abi-Nassif is the founding director of the Lebanon 
 program at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC. He is also a dual-de
 gree graduate student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvar
 d University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prio
 r to that\, he was a Beirut-based consultant advising public sector entitie
 s throughout the Middle East. More recently\, he was a consultant at the Wo
 rld Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Afri
 ca. He writes on Lebanese current affairs.
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SUMMARY:Emile Bustani Seminar: "Greed\, Graft and Gridlock: The Political E
 conomy of Lebanon's Financial Collapse"
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