{"id":1263,"date":"2019-11-13T07:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2019-11-13T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:33:56","slug":"cnn-interview-with-the-president-of-the-american-university-of-beirut-aub-lebanon-protests-are-a-legitimate-national-outcry-and-great-nations-are-built-by-citizens-not-by-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/13\/cnn-interview-with-the-president-of-the-american-university-of-beirut-aub-lebanon-protests-are-a-legitimate-national-outcry-and-great-nations-are-built-by-citizens-not-by-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN interview with the President of the American University of Beirut (AUB): Lebanon protests are &#8220;a legitimate national outcry&#8221; and &#8220;great nations are built by citizens, not by leaders&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AUB_CNN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AUB_CNN.jpg 460w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AUB_CNN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 85vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption> American University of Beirut (AUB) President, Dr. Fadlo Khuri&#8217;s interview with Ms. Becky Anderson from CNN <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading the sad news from Lebanon (one protestor, a father of young children, lost his life yesterday night), Bambi came across this uplifting earlier interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bambi, Dr. Fadlo Khoury&#8217;s words are food for thought not only for Lebanon or for the Arab world, but also by extension for us here in North America: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2019\/10\/28\/connect-the-world-lebanon-protests-fadlo-khuri-president-american-university-of-beirut.cnn\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2019\/10\/28\/connect-the-world-lebanon-protests-fadlo-khuri-president-american-university-of-beirut.cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the sad news from Lebanon (one protestor, a father of young children, lost his life yesterday night), Bambi came across this uplifting earlier interview. According to Bambi, Dr. Fadlo Khoury&#8217;s words are food [&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\/1263"}],"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=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}