In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Lebanese doctor, thinker, and humanitarian Dr. Kamel Mohanna in a dialogue that goes beyond biography to explore a life shaped by commitment, witness, and action in times of collapse. From his early beginnings to his college years in France, during moments of conflict in Lebanon, Dr. Mohanna reflects on what it means to choose proximity to pain rather than distance from it, and how such a path becomes less a profession and more a way of being. The conversation revisits the years of war, not as a closed chapter, but as a formative experience that shaped generations and continues to echo in Lebanon’s present realities. Through the founding and evolution of “Amel Association International”, he reflects on the shift from emergency relief to long-term vision, and how humanitarian work can become both a response and a stance. The discussion expands to Lebanon’s cycle of crises, questioning whether the country is progressing or endlessly repeating its own wounds in different forms. At its core, the conversation explores the fragile balance between humanitarian action and the absence of the state, and whether civil society is being asked to carry what institutions no longer hold. Join Ricardo Karam and Dr. Kamel Mohanna for a conversation on commitment, humanitarian action, and what it means to stand on the side of humanity in times of collapse.