“In a contemporary world where Beirut is thought of as the Paris of the Middle East - it is time to look local and make Lebanon, the Lebanon of the world.”
— Sarah El-Abd, The Phoenix Daily Editor-in-Chief
Nation Station: By the People For The People - How a group of millennials helped create an organization unlike any other
By Albert Geokgeuzian, Staff Writer
If I told you that there is an entity that is helping create jobs, feed, educate, and heal their community, you’d probably think it’s the local government, unless you’re in Lebanon, in which case you wouldn’t think that. But in an old, abandoned gas station in Geitawi, right between Hospital Roum and Hospital Geitawi, an organization has sprung up that is basically doing the work of the government.