The Legacy of the Great Lebanon Famine w/ Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari (E85)

This is a conversation with Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari, repeat guests on the podcast, about the legacy of the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915–1918) and its legacy today.Topics Discussed + Resources:What was the Great Famine? Causes and Context (Allies blockading from the sea, Ottomans barring grains, role of local elites like Michel Sursock)Hunger and Hallucination: Tales from the Great Famine (Lina's talk)An Abandoned Village Bears Witness to Lebanon’s Famines – Old and New (Timour's article)Parallels to todayA Hungry Population Stops Thinking About Resistance: Class, Famine, and Lebanon's World War I LegacyIs there an amnesia problem in Lebanon? Yes and NoThe sense that history is repeating itselfWorking as a way of copingThinking of leaving and of the established migration routes (belonging, identity, legitimacy etc)The role of the diaspora beyond bringing aidAcross the Rickety Bridge by Farrah BerrouAkram Khater's Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861-1921The gendered component of the famineThe Megaphone short doc Maybe let's eat the richCoexistence as being between rioters and peaceful protestersWhat counts as violence vs non-violenceWhat we've inherited from the Lebanese wars (1975-1990)Recommended BooksTimour:On the Road by Jack KerouackKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiCitizen Hariri by Hannes BaumanLina:Beirut Nightmares by Ghada SammanA Month in Siena & The Return by Hicham MatarYes, I am a destroyer by Mira Mattar