π Reel Talk Podcast S3 Ep1 β Debate or Debacle? The Controversy Over Lebanese Diaspora Voting Rights Hosted by Award-Winning Filmmaker & Journalist Daizy Gedeon π Live from Beirut | 9 July 2025 π’ Register Now for This Special Event!
July 3, 2025
It is the most controversial issue concerning the more than 16 million Lebanese diaspora. Will they get the right to vote at the next parliamentary elections in 2026?
Whilst only 1.5 million are eligible to vote, millions more are concerned their voices are being silenced, eliminated, devalued, diminished, despite the Lebanese economy desperately being dependent on the billions of dollars in remittances sent back home to families every year.
Join me and my esteemed panel of experts as we delve into this topic and dissect the power of the Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri, who it appears is the only man standing in the way of the Lebanese diaspora having a voice in 2026. Is he holding the Parliament – the peopleβs house – HOSTAGE?
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Wednesday JULY 9th
7pm Beirut | 9am LA | 12pm NY | 6pm Paris | 8pm Dubai | 2am Sydney
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English Script:
Jim Clarken: In my 20 years working in this area and working throughout conflict zones all over the world, Oxfam does and has done for decades. We’ve never seen anything like this because the occupying power is intentionally starving the population. It has bombarded the population. It is forcefully displacing them. It’s suggesting now it displaces them again from the north to the south, basically, so that it can take over the area. So there is no intent whatsoever, to allow any system to exist in any aid to properly flow. We’re seeing 10,000 children severely malnourished. Everybody else is starving. We finished our last few parcels of aid. And the tragic thing about it is almost within sight of these people, there are trucks and trucks and trucks. We have millions of dollars worth of aid on the border waiting to come in. One of the most startling statistics, and I know people sometimes find this difficult to digest, but this one is from The Lancet, which was published recently that says the life expectancy of people in Gaza has gone from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, a drop of nearly 35 years. The lowest life expectancy by a distance in the world. That’s because they’re killing civilians and killing children who will not grow up to live normal lives.
