Marie Layoun

PhD student in economics and aspiring scholar. Interested in religion and development, emphasis on energy. Check out my work on my website and on Researchgate!

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

To help Lebanon, please donate:

-Lebanese Red Cross (doing heroic work on explosion site) https://t.co/MOi1xa25Ok

-Lebanese Food Bank https://t.co/Pz7FPBCUGP

-Beit al Baraka https://t.co/IEgkALaB29

A fuller list here: https://t.co/ORhGcbxaSv

#BeirutExplosion #Beirut

[Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب @chehayebk]

It’s 2022. Scientists have brilliantly calculated the number of ants worldwide, but Lebanon somehow hasn’t had a population census since 1932.

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

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[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Lebanon energy minister says this thick black smoke that exited one of the only running power plants last week — angering many people — “is annoying, but is not harmful to health”.

[Marie-Laure GB @MarieLaureGB]

Un professeur de technologie en collège, par exemple, a en moyenne 10 classes. Donc quand on nous dit qu'il ne manque "que" 15 profs de techno dans une académie, c'est en réalité 150 classes qui sont privées de cet enseignement. C'est-à-dire + de 4000 élèves. #NotreVraieRentrée

[Global Witness @Global_Witness]

NEW | French oil giant @TotalEnergies is fuelling Russian military attacks on Ukrainian civilians from their joint-owned Siberian gas fields, our latest investigation shows.

It's time for Total to stop putting profit above peace.

#FossilFuelsFundWar https://t.co/kqSq1vcPkj

[Lina Zhaim ~ لينا @LinaZhaim]

This is what the Lebanese Corporate Registry Records in Beirut looks like and this is how archives are preserved… in travel luggage. This is what our politicians have turned the public administration into, and this is how they manage the affairs of the 🇱🇧 people.

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

World Bank report questions whether #Lebanon’s economic model since 1993 has been a Ponzi scheme.

It also accuses Lebanese politicians of “hollow & opportunistic” and “cruel” promises on deposits stuck in banks that “flagrantly contradict reality”.

Quite the cover.

[Valentina Cantori (she/her) @valecantori]

When will international students organize to request better treatment in the US while pursuing their PhD? I am shocked to discover most are so unaware of the difficulties we face. A 🧵:

[Christiana Parreira @cmparreira]

Really interesting article about water scarcity and the private (cartelized) provision of water by @mortada29 for @SynapsNetwork -- with an important tracing of the sector through Lebanon's civil war fragmentation and post-war re-centralization of power👇

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

@irerihc @e_verdolini @jan_c_steckel @tavoni_massimo @EIEEorg @MCC_Berlin You go girl 😎✌️

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

Original ! Ça donne envie de se balader et découvrir 😊✌️

[Lucas Destrem 🏭🌳🗺 @LucasDestrem]

🚇 Ça ressemble au plan de la #RATP. Mais regardez de + près… Voici un plan culturel et artistique du métro de #Paris. J’ai remplacé +500 noms de stations par celui de lieux d’art et de culture. En soutien à un secteur tellement fragilisé par la crise #COVID19. La suite ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Lucas Destrem 🏭🌳🗺 @LucasDestrem]

🚇 Ça ressemble au plan de la #RATP. Mais regardez de + près… Voici un plan culturel et artistique du métro de #Paris. J’ai remplacé +500 noms de stations par celui de lieux d’art et de culture. En soutien à un secteur tellement fragilisé par la crise #COVID19. La suite ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[IFI at AUB @ifi_aub]

We have heard about the #electricity law 462/2002. What does this law entail? & what are its main components? What is the history of #EDL? And how does it operate?
This paper by @Marc_Ayoub, @ah_christina, & Pamela Rizkallah answers these questions &more👇
https://t.co/LCvCF5JvWu

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

Delighted to see this influential paper by @erinhengel is forthcoming at @EJ_RES:

"Are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review"

https://t.co/Xbv1AZ7S3N

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

Amazing report on EDL with graphs on fuel bills, EDL subsidies, lots of info, problems and solutions #electricity #energy #lebanon
just dropping it here 💫✨
https://t.co/UayfFKXT0h

[Arthur Sarradin | آرثر سري الدين @ArthurSarradin]

🇱🇧💵 Les secteurs du tourisme et les restaurants au Liban pourront afficher leurs prix en dollars cet été.
Pourquoi ce premier pas vers la dollarisation de l’économie libanaise est dangereux ? ⬇️

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

So in a sense this outcome looks like good news for me after all

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

It seems that the introduction of new challengers on the political competition scene has rallied captive voters to support their establishment party whereas swing voters have switched their votes toward renewing the political scene

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

(1/3) How did main Lebanon parties do in stronghold districts, 2018➡️2022?

Some had slight/moderate vote increase

(Amal) Berri list:⬆️3%
(Hezb) Raad list:⬆️2%
(Hezb) Bekaa III:⬆️10%
(Hezb/Ahbash) Beirut II:⬆️10%
(LF) Geagea list:⬆️6%
Murr list:⬆️16%
(Kataeb) Gemayel list:⬆️18%

[Marie Layoun @MarieLayoun]

And thus make it more difficult (while still possible) for parties to monitor their voters.
Either way it is admitted that poor voters will always prefer immediate material benefits over programmatic promises as they are risk averse & discount the future