Aug.11 — Yassine Jaber, chair of the foreign affairs committee and member of Lebanon Parliament, discusses Lebanon’s government stepping down amid a public demand for responsibility over an explosion in Beirut’s port, the possibility of political change in the country and what the political priorities should be. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.”
In This Story: Lebanon
The official language, Arabic, is the most common language spoken by the citizens of Lebanon. Its capital is Beirut.
Lebanon was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and is a member of the Arab League (1945), the Non-Aligned Movement (1961), Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (1969), and the Organisation internationale de la francophonie (1973).