{"id":11748,"date":"2021-07-21T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T15:49:34","slug":"lebanon-a-beautiful-country-politically-taken-hostage-by-financially-and-morally-corrupt-warlords-stuck-in-a-decaying-sectarian-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/lebanon-a-beautiful-country-politically-taken-hostage-by-financially-and-morally-corrupt-warlords-stuck-in-a-decaying-sectarian-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: A beautiful country politically taken hostage by financially and morally corrupt warlords stuck in a decaying sectarian system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Channel 4, UK <\/em>(June 22, 2021; English content):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Young medics leaving Lebanon as country teeters on brink of collapse\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2j4-DdQrSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>France24 <\/em>(July 20, 2021; French content): <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Liban : le pays s&#039;enfonce dans la crise politique et \u00e9conomique \u2022 FRANCE 24\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6W4W5iEROc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this post on an alarming yet beautiful musical note, one song comes to Bambi&#8217;s mind. It is by Mr. Ragheb Alama from 2018 (lyrics by Mr. Nizar Francis). It is called &#8220;Tar El Balad&#8221; [&#8220;The country is lost&#8221;]. Thank you Mr. Alama for expressing the despair of the people of Lebanon. This famous song starts as follows: \u201c<em>Now is the time, people, to scream out loud. There is no time left, the country is lost.  Where is justice? Dreams are being extinguished. Awareness in us has gone to sleep, and the tough situation is only getting more difficult with tim<\/em>e.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ragheb Alama - Tar El Balad (Official Lyrics Video) - \u0631\u0627\u063a\u0628 \u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0637\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0644\u062f\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsUkvb1PitQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11749\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-9.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/heart-9-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 85vw, 156px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4, UK (June 22, 2021; English content): France24 (July 20, 2021; French content): To conclude this post on an alarming yet beautiful musical note, one song comes to Bambi&#8217;s mind. It is by Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11755,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}