The amnesty law has been met with fervent rejection in the streets because it pardons Lebanese people who fled to and collaborated with Israel.
While the army was meant to maintain Taif's division of power and address intra-Lebanese violence, it is not perceived as a neutral institution in Tripoli.
Leadership and coordination would be important, not necessarily in a rigid hierarchy, to officially unify the demands of those who seek change.
The extended four-day shutdown in Lebanon reflects subpar public policy-making.
“European Union member states are co-opting the pandemic to reinforce deadly border policies,” said Haidi Sadik, a spokesperson at Sea-Watch.
Lebanon is looking for over $10 billion from the IMF, but that's an ambitious figure considering international donors' distrust in the government.
Corruption, a standard that is being revolted against in Lebanon, manifests in different ways that harm the country and its people.
This is not the first time that Algerian oil and gas company Sonatrach has been criticized for scandals by Lebanese media.
The neoliberal economic planning and militaristic hegemony Tripoli is resisting today is deeply rooted in perceptions of Tripoli since the 1990s.
Not integrating a quarter of Lebanon’s inhabitants, solely because they are refugees, has a wide range impact on Lebanese socio-economic life.
Along with many of the other demands of protesters, Lebanon's Parliament shot down the prospect of early elections in their latest meeting.
The Taif Agreement is a temporary, transitory power-sharing arrangement that was wrongly interpreted and never completely implemented.