A Federal Lebanon? An Overview of Multicultural Federations and Comparison with Lebanon

Analysis by Ahmad Al Saati, Featured Writer

There is increasing talk nowadays among political circles of adopting Federalism in Lebanon to accommodate Lebanon's wealth of cultural and religious diversity. To properly predict an answer, this article attempts to do an overview of multi-cultural federations around the world, focusing mostly on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country that arguably resembles Lebanon the most in terms of religious identity. The goal is to know why they adopted federalism, if it worked for them, and if Lebanon should too.