![Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki, a Beirut Madinati candidate, shows her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot at a polling station during Beirut's municipal elections. [Reuters]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ucPooZyLkM7K_YZyNv1YDC-SbqevwMkQH4Apb203rBN_o3kT6Nul-0pvRqtr0tay9sOqr--LU_FTkuOUUEuQy_C-2pDQ1BA1v-hUfQSektPe3l_OAL88m3PxY4WhzmUOm_nDhf_vw9epQazRCQWs-Km2eSzZ5aYrSTWFDRlPCBsa2mASrkESLRaa9twvF8j1ul-BC1Gn29q21s=s0-d)
If change is ever to come to stagnant Arab political systems that have long lumbered beneath the control of sectarian and other entrenched forces, historians may look back on the Beirut municipal elections held Sunday as a turning point.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/beirut-elections-mark-birth-arab-citizens-160510115006301.html
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