Karim Merhej

Karim Merhej is a researcher and writer at The Public Source, an independent media organization based in Beirut, covering corruption, socioeconomic inequalities, and failures in governance in Lebanon. He is also a Nonresident Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. He previously worked as a researcher at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.

How Corruption Corroded Healthcare and Electricity in Lebanon

From children and adolescents rummaging through rubbish bins in search of scraps of food or aluminum cans, to elderly people selling minuscule commodities on the streets of Beirut and deprived of any modicum of social protections to live out their twilight years in dignity, Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse is in full swing. In mid-2020, when the […]