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The Beirut Banyan

Ronnie Chatah•www.beirutbanyan.com
Society & Culture
Storytelling and conversations, from Beirut and beyond. Subscribe from your preferred podcast platform. Support us through Paypal or Patreon.
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Episodes

EPISODE 4: Diplomacy with Amb. Amal Mudallali

We're in Beirut for Episode 4 of The Beirut Banyan, and we're joined by Lebanon's Ambassador to the United Nations, Amal Mudallali. Amal's career bridges journalism and politics with research, analysis and diplomacy. Prior to her current post at the UN, Amal worked at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a leading Washington, DC based think-tank with her research focusing on Lebanon and wider Middle East issues. She also served as a foreign policy and American affairs advisor to the late Rafik Hariri and ...

Aug 09, 2019•49 min

EPISODE 3: Urban Planning with Mona El Hallak

We're in Ras Beirut for the third episode of The Beirut Banyan, and we're joined by Mona El Hallak. Mona is best known for helping save and restore the 'Barakat Building' on the city's former Green Line. Today the building serves as a museum of Beirut's civil war and is better known by its current name, Beit Beirut. Mona is more than an architect and an urban planner. She is an activist and a heritage enthusiast, and she's one of the city's foremost storytellers when it comes to the civil war. M...

Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 13 min

EPISODE 2: Rail Transport with Elias Maalouf

We're joined by Elias Maalouf, founder of Train/Train NGO. We get into the origins of the rail network of Lebanon and how Lebanese excelled at rail in the late 19th century. The discussion covers Ottoman politics, French Mandate pursuits, and post-independence reluctance to retain rail throughout the country. The conversation also covers Beirut's old tram network and its dismantlement in the early 1960s, and how protests by rail employees helped preserve rail until the onset of the civil war. Th...

Jul 30, 2019•1 hr 12 min

Ep.1: Ziad Doueiri & Film

Our first episode. We meet with film director Ziad Doueiri at his editing studio in Paris, and we discuss all aspects of his filmmaking. From his initial career on the set with Quentin Tarantino to his most recent Oscar-nominated film 'The Insult', and from his adolescent years roaming the streets of Hamra to his recent decision to live abroad. We jump into the making of 'Lila Says' and the political fallout of 'The Attack', and how its repercussions were personally felt when he was briefly deta...

Jul 26, 2019•1 hr 17 min

Introduction to The Beirut Banyan

An introduction to 'The Beirut Banyan' podcast. Storytelling and conversations, from Beirut and beyond. Music by Marc Codsi and graphic design by Sarah Tarhini.

Jul 25, 2019•7 min
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