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Though an elite earning salaries in dollars still throngs bars in upscale neighbourhoods, poverty has risen to 80 per cent.

‘There are many families who no longer consider education important’

Though an elite earning salaries in dollars still throngs bars in upscale neighbourhoods, poverty has risen to 80 per cent.

Though an elite earning salaries in dollars still throngs bars in upscale neighbourhoods, poverty has risen to 80 per cent.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Before Lebanon's devastating financial crisis struck, Faraj Faraj thought university could set him on a path out of a cramped family home in a poor area of Beirut and towards financial independence.

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Before Lebanons devastating financial crisis struck, Faraj Faraj thought university could set him on a path out of a cramped family home in a poor area of Beirut and towards financial independence, R...

BEIRUT: Before Lebanon’s devastating financial crisis struck, Faraj Faraj thought university could set him on a path out of a cramped family home in a poor area of Beirut and toward financial independence. Instead, like increasing numbers of Lebanon’s young people, soaring costs forced the 19-year-old to drop out of studying just over a year ago, before he had finished

BEIRUT: BeforeLebanon s devastating financial crisis struck, Faraj Faraj thought university could set him on a path out of a cramped family home in a...

BEIRUT: BeforeLebanon s devastating financial crisis struck, Faraj Faraj thought university could set him on a path out of a cramped family home in a...