Lydia Assouad revisits the "Arab Inequality puzzle" : survey estimates suggest that inequality in the Middle East is not particularly high. In reality, the Middle East is the most unequal region in the world, with both enormous inequality between countries and large inequality within countries.

Recommendations:

Comics "Palestine" by Joe Sacco

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769712.Palestine

Movie "Capernaum" by Nadine Labaki

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8267604/

Paper:

"Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014" by Lydia Assouad

https://wid.world/document/rethinking-lebanese-economic-miracle-extreme-concentration-income-wealth-lebanon-2005-2014-wid-world-working-paper-201713/

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