On this episode of Shifting Tides, Elif Zaim and Michael Arnold talk with Christophe-Abi Nassif, the acting Lebanon program director at the Middle East Institute about the race to rebuild the port of Beirut. They discuss the importance of ports in the Eastern Mediterranean both with regards to regional and international geopolitical competition, the current situation at the port of Beirut, who stands to gain domestically from various reconstruction proposals, the issue of accountability in the country, and what lays over the horizon in terms of possible successful bids.