Lebanon Votes Its Local Leaders for the First Time in Almost a Decade · Global Voices

Lebanese society has had every weekend of May busy. As spring summer settled on the other side of their windows, they have stood before the television every Sunday evening. For the first time in almost a decade, Lebanon goes to the polls to elect its local leaders. "The last few years have been incredibly difficult, to say the least," says Jana Nasr, after voting for the first time in municipal elections. An economic crisis with world records, a…