IN SHORT

Eli Khoury grew up caught between the twisted reality of war and a broken family. When his political cartoons in the newspaper began to cause trouble, he had to flee. Eli spent the 1980s working in California but eventually returned to Lebanon to set up Quantum Group. And he’s always trying to improve his country’s future, about which he’s optimistic: “All the potential negatives, they will end up being washed out by the real Lebanon.”