Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Bilal Saab is quoted in the Daily Star on Lebanon’s new cabinet:

But experts are not too optimistic about the performance of the new 24-member Cabinet, in light of the depth of political differences among its rival components.

“The Cabinet will have its hands full, for sure, and it is hard to say where it will succeed and where it will fail,” said Bilal Y. Saab, Senior Fellow at the at the in Washington. “I am lowering my expectations, knowing the objective difficulty of [the] challenges ahead and the depth of the parties’ political differences.”

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