With the death of Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in late 2024, and the inauguration of a new government in Lebanon in early 2025, how would you describe the political atmosphere in Lebanon right now?

I would really say that today it's very tense but suspended.

So on paper, it's August and it's summer and it's sunny outside, everything you want.

But there's also an occupation in the south.

uh that's still ongoing and we've just come out of a war uh there's a ceasefire but you don't know like everything is so fragile every other day there are still some detonations or bombings that are happening in the south but they're so far further away from everyone that not everyone is talking about them anymore so there's always this looming shadow of war That's happening.

And I would say, you know, having been through at least two wars in the last three years has made everybody so tense and it's aggravated or exacerbated.

If you want like sectarian rifts or sectarian, if you want divisions.

So that being the case, I mean, what is it like, you know, to see self-described pro-Palestinian protesters marching with Hezbollah flags in places like London and New York? I mean, how different did you find the understanding or do you find the understanding of the challenges that face Lebanon abroad as opposed to what you see on the ground there every day?