What New Challenges is Lebanon Facing? An interview with Eric Verdeil and Ghaleb Faour
Résumé
Eric Verdeil , Ghaleb Faour and Mouin Hamzé have recently coedited the "Atlas of Lebanon. New Challenges", published by Presses de l’IFPO. Previously published in French and Arabic, the Atlas provides a unique vision of Lebanon through maps, pictures, satellite images and infographics as well as texts assessing the main challenges the country faces today. Resulting from a violent past, current conflicts in neighbouring countries such as Syria or massive urbanisation, these new challenges are analysed in connection with a certain retreat of the state to the benefit of other, sometimes new actors. Eric Verdeil and Ghaleb Faour answer our questions on this collaborative project and some of its findings. Interview by Miriam Périer, CERI