Loulwa El Maalouf, Director of Partnerships at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Lebanon, writes:
Traffic lights were late to Beirut and the rest of the country. It also took a couple of years for Lebanese to get used to them and start obeying them (as much as is humanly possible for Lebanese). They are beautiful. They represent organisation, civilisation, and equality under the law. But now we are losing them. Damaged ones are not repaired, and often they don’t work due to power cuts. Food prices have risen sharply. Bread now costs seven times more than it did back in 2019. A gallon of gas costs more than eleven times as much.
Medicine prices continue to skyrocket too; but many are unavailable, even if you can pay in US dollars.
