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A Feudal Outpost in Mount Lebanon

Lana Asfour

‘Intelligent, unpredictable, occasionally ruthless, Jumblatt shows that he is still very much in the game.’

Lana Asfour

Lana Asfour works as a journalist in London and Beirut, her articles appearing in The Times, The New Statesman, The Observer, The Daily Star Beirut, the BBC World Service and Granta.com among others. She completed her Ph.D. in Modern Languages and Literature at Oxford, was a visiting researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the American University of Beirut, and has taught at Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently working on a novel.

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