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That’s former president Fuad Chehab (died 1973) up for reelection in the upcoming presidential race, according to these posters in Hamra.  
I asked the opinion of an elder lady walking by who appeared to be in her 70s with puffy frosted blonde hair: “It’s a beautiful idea,” she said smiling. 
I asked a rumpled taxi driver in his 50’s: “A president like him or Emile Lahoud will never come again,” he said, resignedly.  
Lahoud (who left office in 2007 after a controversial term extension) and Chehab were both army generals. Many Lebanese are disenchanted about the current candidates for president, with both front runners having served as warlords responsible for the deaths of thousands during one of the bloodiest chapters of the civil war. 
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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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