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This week on Babel,\xa0Jon Alterman talks\xa0with Jessica Obeid, energy consultant, a senior global advisor at the London-based consultancy Azure Strategy, and an academy associate with Chatham House's Energy, Environment, and Resources Programme. They talk about the Lebanese power sector and what its shortcomings tell us about broader fissures in Arab society. Then,\xa0Natasha Hall, Will Todman, and Jon continue the discussion about sectarianism and\xa0renewable energy, and discuss our new report.\n\nJessica Obeid, "Failure to Power: The Need for Decentralized Renewable Energy Models," CSIS, March 18, 2021.\n\nNatasha Hall, "Lebanon's Political Bosses Are the Real Problem," CSIS, August 17, 2020.\n\nJessica Obeid, \u201cLebanon\u2019s Power Sector: Making Reforms Work,\u201d LCPS, June 2020.\n\nTranscript, "Lebanon's Energy Sector," CSIS, April 6, 2021.