Lebanon's political, social, and economic reality comprises a number of constants on the one hand and variables on the other. The constants mentioned in the previously published report relate to the nature of sectarianism, a political system based on clientelism and power-sharing between different sects prior to the civil war and then amongst the ruling warlords after 1990, as well as to the nature of the rentier and service economy that has wiped out industry and agriculture, creating an uneven distribution of income…