Glamour and destruction live side by side in Beirut. But has it finally reached breaking point?

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Why are people so angry? How has the trouble evolved in Lebanon? And what is likely to happen next?

The result is that the nation's currency has lost 60 per cent of its value in recent weeks, even as prices of staples have rocketed. The explosion at the port destroyed the bulk of the country's supply of cereals, leaving it dependent on international aid. Most parts of Lebanon are receiving only two or three hours of electricity a day, and in the middle of a pandemic hospitals lack power, medicines and equipment.

Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies are eager to see Hezbollah's powers curbed, but fear any measure which extends the reach of democracy and transparency and ousts their own clients in the country. The port explosion came on the eve of verdicts from a United Nations-led inquiry into that series of murders, in which

 

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