Through 2015, the risks to Lebanese unity mounted, as fears of ISIL grew. But the Lebanese pulled together and held the line.
De Gaulle on Churchill: 'he gets angry when he's wrong, I get angry when I'm right. We argue all the time'.
Making case to Arab students that the smartphone was a superpower, and they had to get out there and use it to change the region.
Education, education, education.
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With the brilliant Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh. The hub is now generating the ideas that we don't yet understand but we will find we cannot live without.
DFID rolled out a brilliant programme to get every school pupil in Lebanon their text books. Reached every corner of the country. Great use of UK support.
At a school now more than half Syrian refugees. EBS pulled together the international effort to respond to this huge challenge.
After my TED Talk, we triggered an online debate, Leb2020, on what they wanted for the future of the country and the Middle East.
A complicated but enthusiastic game of high fives.
During British Council week on English, Lebanon.