0:00 Intro
1:30 Catching up with Carmen
7:42 Day to Day Life in Beirut
19:20 Cancer
23:39 Neoliberal Capitalism
25:23 Structural Racism
29:20 Politics of Fear
33:47 Day by Day Mode
40:26 IMF Negotiations
47:36 Confessional Power Sharing
59:28 Lecturing in time of Covid
We're back with Carmen Geha for Episode 197 of The Beirut Banyan.
We discuss her recent 'The New Arab' pieces tackling the Lebanese government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and wider issues that link the pandemic to rampant corruption and the ongoing economic crisis.
Carmen reflects on her personal 'politics of hope' and overcoming political fear. We talk about a potential silver lining in failed IMF negotiations and how issues of structural racism tie in to a dysfunctional state's inability to implement laws that protect vulnerable groups including domestic workers.
Carmen Geha is an Associate Professor with Tenure at the American University of Beirut.
The pieces referred to in this episode are accessible below:
Corruption, not coronavirus, is ravaging Lebanon:
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2020/4/30/corruption-not-coronavirus-is-ravaging-lebanon
Beirut under quarantine: Why decades of unshackled neoliberalism left Lebanon in extreme danger from coronavirus:
Beirut under quarantine: Why decades of unshackled neoliberalism left Lebanon in extreme danger from coronavirus
https://medium.com/@levantophile/on-the-arab-identity-and-its-discontents-a-personal-reflection-and-a-survey-of-christian-163ed3bafd72
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