“As they say, poverty comes through the door and love goes out the window,” said Hussein Al Choubassy, the head of Saadnayel municipality.
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Karem Monzer is a journalist, filmmaker, and artistic activist. He holds a BA in Communication Arts and MA in migration, using his degrees for documentary production and cinematography, scriptwriting, editing, and content creation. Through his work at Beirut Today, he seeks to peel the layers of communal struggle and delineate truths with imaginative and current affairs reporting.
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