Plastic surgery has been popular in lebanon for a really long time. People love their bow talks. Some pople consider it sort of a right of passage. Despite everything that lebanon is going through with its economic crisis, its plastic surgeons report making the same amount of money as they did before the financial crisis. The average lebanese nose job is about 25 hundred usd - less than half what you get in America.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western businesses pulled out and governments imposed punishing sanctions. But Russia’s economy is proving surprisingly resilient. In the instalment of our French election series, we travel to Provence to better understand the campaign of the hard-right candidate Eric Zemmour, who has tapped into and stoked anti-Muslim sentiment. And why Lebanon’s plastic surgeons are thriving amid an economic mess.
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