An ode to strength

Last month Lebanon celebrated, on May 25, our liberation and resistance national holiday for the 16th time. The region also marks 100 years of the Sykes-Picot Agreement’s adoption on May 16, which was signed in secret by colonial powers to delineate areas of power in the Near East. We commemorate too that 10 years ago this summer, some Israeli hardheads said they would bomb Lebanon “back into the stone age”. And last but surely not least to note is that May 25 is the day on which the country suffered the completion of two years without a president. It goes without saying that the country needs a president and that history, however loaded with mistakes, is a river whose tide we cannot turn back. But in noting the painful past and its many sins of omission, something also deserves to be said about the current time, namely that Lebanon now,