{"id":5297,"date":"2020-07-11T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2020-07-11T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T15:43:00","slug":"a-lesson-from-lebanon-to-the-world-how-mafia-like-political-corruption-can-kill-a-beautiful-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/11\/a-lesson-from-lebanon-to-the-world-how-mafia-like-political-corruption-can-kill-a-beautiful-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A lesson from Lebanon to the world: How mafia-like political corruption can kill a beautiful country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonDrawingAUBCampus-1024x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5298\" width=\"553\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonDrawingAUBCampus-1024x292.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonDrawingAUBCampus-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonDrawingAUBCampus-768x219.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonDrawingAUBCampus-1200x343.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LebanonDrawingAUBCampus.jpg 1383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 85vw, 553px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi would like to thank her friend Amale for sharing the last two videos shown further below. Of note, in the first one, you can see\/hear the American University of Beirut (AUB) President, Dr. Fadlo R. Khuri saying: \u201c<em>Now I am going to be blunt to you. This is the worst government in Lebanese history with regard to their understanding or of care of higher education<\/em>&#8230;\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before sharing these videos, Bambi will thank Ms. Jane Ferguson for her journalistic piece for the <em>PBS News Hour<\/em>. It describes the tragedy of Lebanon very well&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon deserves much\nbetter than this financial\/economic fiasco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, it is neither the covid-19 nor the USA\u2019s fault. This is a homemade tragedy\u2026<\/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=\"Lebanon, already bankrupt, contends with pandemic&#039;s rising threat\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ii-T5Tc_llA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"AUB 1\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjZG9ufIqIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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=\"AUB 2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dqQGNop7C84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi would like to thank her friend Amale for sharing the last two videos shown further below. Of note, in the first one, you can see\/hear the American University of Beirut (AUB) President, Dr. Fadlo [&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\/5297"}],"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=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}