At the age of 92, Salah Tizani is almost as old as Lebanon. The country was founded in 1920. He believes his country never had a chance. He thinks back to the days when France set the country’s borders. Tizani told Reuters, “people went to bed one day thinking they were Syrians or Ottomans… and the next day they woke up to find themselves in the Lebanese state.” After years of wars, bombings and killings, Lebanon’s latest disaster was the August 4 Beirut port explosion that killed some 180 people, injured 6,000 and destroyed a large part of the city. On September 1, the country marks its 100 anniversary. It comes at a difficult time. The economy has collapsed. There is great poverty. And people are leaving Lebanon in large numbers.