Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, during his debate with L'Orient-Le Jour at the Grand Serail, on Sept. 14, 2025. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/ L'Orient-Le Jour)
It’s not every day that a sitting prime minister engages in a more or less free-flowing conversation with the media live on air. But Nawaf Salam played along. L’Orient-Le Jour closed the first edition of its “Un vent de liberté” [Wind of freedom] festival, held from Sept. 12 to 14, with a conversation with the prime minister on Sunday evening. He answered questions from editors-in-chief Elie Fayad and Anthony Samrani with humor, a characteristic that few Lebanese know about Salam, who has forged a stern and firm image for himself. His humor did not prevent him from focusing on his Cabinet’s two main missions: ensuring state monopoly on weapons and pursuing his multi-level reform agenda.For security reasons, the festival’s closing event was held at the Grand Serail. More than 200 subscribers of the newspaper attended the “great debate,”...
It’s not every day that a sitting prime minister engages in a more or less free-flowing conversation with the media live on air. But Nawaf Salam played along. L’Orient-Le Jour closed the first edition of its “Un vent de liberté” [Wind of freedom] festival, held from Sept. 12 to 14, with a conversation with the prime minister on Sunday evening. He answered questions from editors-in-chief Elie Fayad and Anthony Samrani with humor, a characteristic that few Lebanese know about Salam, who has forged a stern and firm image for himself. His humor did not prevent him from focusing on his Cabinet’s two main missions: ensuring state monopoly on weapons and pursuing his multi-level reform agenda.For security reasons, the festival’s closing event was held at the Grand Serail. More than 200 subscribers of the newspaper attended the...
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