'A Lebanon without its politicians': Medea Azouri reflects on activism and writing

There’s nothing worse than two journalists talking to each other. They pass judgment freely, leap from serious topics to their own egos in the same breath and trade sharp jabs about their colleagues. Still, these exchanges can promise surprising sparks, especially when the conversation is left unfiltered.Medea Azouri is one of them — one of those willing to dip their pen in acid and headline an article "Nous sommes un peuple de mer(de)" (a French play on words meaning We are the people of the sea/We are a shit people) about us, the Lebanese. Nearly 10 years later, it remains one of the pieces she is most proud of from her time writing for L'Orient-Le Jour.Now based in Riyadh for six months and in her early fifties, she still embraces her emotions, her excesses and her brazen streak of bad faith whenever she needs to unleash...