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The six-year dusk

Michel Aoun’s term in office has come to an end. He left Baabda on the penultimate day of his presidency after six years marked by the worst economic and financial crisis in Lebanon’s history and by the Beirut port explosion.

The six-year dusk

Aoun leaves the Baabda Presidential Palace on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)

On Feb. 6, 2006, Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah convened in Beirut’s southern suburb of Mar Mikhael to sign a memorandum of understanding that radically changed the political landscape and course of events in Lebanon.Nearly a year after the...
On Feb. 6, 2006, Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah convened in Beirut’s southern suburb of Mar Mikhael to sign a memorandum of understanding that radically changed the political landscape and course of events in Lebanon.Nearly a year after the...