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This week on Babel, Jon speaks with Sami Atallah, the founding director of The Policy Initiative in Beirut. They talk about Lebanon's three year old financial crisis, its struggle with political accountability, and where change might come from. Then, Jon continues the conversation with Will Todman and Caleb Harper about how donors and the international community are thinking about Lebanon.\n\nSami Atallah et al., \u201cWhen elections don\u2019t matter? How new parliamentarians can improve the politics of power-sharing arrangements,\u201d Middle East Institute, July 19, 2022.\xa0\n\nSami Atallah, \u201cLebanon\u2019s Parliamentary Elections: How Did the Opposition Win?\u201d Jadaliyya, May 24, 2022.\xa0\xa0\n\nWill Todman and Caleb Harper, "Lebanon's Growing Humanitarian Crisis," CSIS, December 16, 2021.\n\nWill Todman, "Lebanon's New Government," CSIS, September 10, 2021.\n\nTranscript, "Lebanon's Freefall," CSIS, October 4, 2022.