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May 8, 2021 May 8, 2021 SHOW TRANSCRIPT Food prices are sky high in Lebanon. That’s made for a difficult Ramadan, which features a big meal to break the daily fast. This year, many people are facing empty refrigerators and even scavenging through dumpsters.  Abdulrahman gets in his taxi and cruises the streets of Beirut for customers, but the quest for his daily bread comes up empty It’s the holy month of Ramadan when families break the daily fast at sunset.  With corona and rising prices, this is the most difficult Ramadan of my life, said the taxi driver, Abdulrahman Takkoush. Every one in his family has had coronavirus, Abdulrahman twice. His 94-year-old father, Badr, is still bedridden from the disease. Making ends meet has never been harder for many people here. The economy is in free fall, food inflation is running at up to 400 percent and the currency, the Lira, has lost around 80 percent of its value against the dollar. 

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