‘A space to listen’: Lebanese tackle crisis on Clubhouse

Lebanon is reeling from the triple blow of the coronavirus pandemic, an economic collapse and last year’s cataclysmic explosion at Beirut port – meaning there is no shortage of hot topics for debate. Chat rooms on Clubhouse include ‘No one is coming to save us’ and ‘What’s on the table for change in Lebanon?’ — AP

BEIRUT: In a break from social media mud-slinging and Lebanon’s perennially polarised debates, audio app Clubhouse is hosting a new kind of conversation in the crisis-hit country.

Users say it is achieving a little miracle: free-wheeling political discussions across party lines which don’t descend into blows.