Can the Arab world afford another failed state? - opinion
Beirut, once the “Paris of the Middle East,” is today the capital of a failed state, but this is by no means unprecedented.
TUNISIA WAS once considered the Arab Spring’s sole success story, but President Kais Saied has dissolved parliament, dismissed the government and assumed autocratic powers. (photo credit: MUHAMMAD HAMED/REUTERS)ByMARK REGEVUpdated: