Lebanon is probably at the top of the list of countries in the world with a population living outside its borders that vastly exceeds the number of people living within its borders. The ratio is huge; reports speak of 4.5 million people in Lebanon, with more than 18 million living outside the country. You can call them expats, or emigrants, or even refugees, but at the end of the day no matter what the designation, or the reason, the numbers don’t lie.
Yet I caution you not to be fooled by all the emotional poems and lamentations we read in reports and articles on a regular basis. It is not as a result of war, or persecution, or fear that an entire Lebanese population has been looking for a home-
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