The utopian group of professors, architects, artists, and white-collar professionals was supposed to be too naïve and elitist to make any headway against the entrenched warlords and clan bosses who have controlled Lebanese politics for as long as most voters here have been alive. Instead, the upstart campaign called Beirut Madinati — “Beirut Is My City” — nearly scored an upset in May's city council elections.
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