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Pierre Zalloua

Pierre Zalloua - nationalism - Lebanese identity - Levant genetics - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Lebanese identity question

A discussion between geneticist Pierre Zalloua and scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb asks how much shared identity Lebanon needs to remain one country, and who gets to define it.

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Pierre Zalloua - Levant genetics - DNA - Ancestry - Genetic continuity

Reading the Levant through DNA

Genetic research is uncovering the Levant's population history while revealing both the power and the limits of DNA.

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