Photo courtesy Gebran Bassil's press service
Can a simple meeting change a country’s political future? It seems so. This particular scene took place in 1993, in the small Parisian town of La Haute-Maison on Christmas Eve. It was the first time Gebran Bassil had set foot in France, and he had to find his way through public transport which he later said he “understood nothing about.” He actually made the trip to finally get a face-to-face meeting with Michel Aoun, after getting his phone number from a friend.The 23-year-old Aounist activist was keen to meet his idol, who had been exiled in France since Oct. 13, 1990, even if it meant that he had to sleep under the stairs of a nearby relative’s house after the meeting. Although he did not stay for dinner, the young engineer seemed to have impressed his host, the founder of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), to the point that the...
Can a simple meeting change a country’s political future? It seems so. This particular scene took place in 1993, in the small Parisian town of La Haute-Maison on Christmas Eve. It was the first time Gebran Bassil had set foot in France, and he had to find his way through public transport which he later said he “understood nothing about.” He actually made the trip to finally get a face-to-face meeting with Michel Aoun, after getting his phone number from a friend.The 23-year-old Aounist activist was keen to meet his idol, who had been exiled in France since Oct. 13, 1990, even if it meant that he had to sleep under the stairs of a nearby relative’s house after the meeting. Although he did not stay for dinner, the young engineer seemed to have impressed his host, the founder of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), to the point that...
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