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A Mezze: Baaloul Verde
Babel: Translating the Middle East
English - August 29, 2023 14:11 - 2 minutes - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHomepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Baaloul is not like most towns in Lebanon for two reasons. First, its inhabitants do not use any of Lebanon’s most common languages; instead, the lingua franca is Spanish. Second, it has reliable electricity. A new Mezze from the CSIS Middle East Program.