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I want to share with you moving essays and articles from the past two weeks in Lebanon that I think are worth reading.
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(apologies if I've forgotten/missed any. feel free to add them below)
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(apologies if I've forgotten/missed any. feel free to add them below)
Broken Glass, Blood, and Anguish: Beirut After the Blast by @SeemaJilani https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/18/broken-glass-blood-and-anguish-beirut-after-the-blast/
Aftershock by Sara Mourad for @RustedRadishes http://www.rustedradishes.com/aftershock/
'We lost everything:' Grieving Beirut neighbourhood struggles to rebuild https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/we-lost-everything-grieving-beirut-neighbourhood-struggles-to-rebuild?s=09 by @ellen_fra
Ce n’est pas Beyrouth, par Elias Khoury pour @libe https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/08/15/ce-n-est-pas-beyrouth-par-elias-khoury_1796887
Losing Beirut: On Life in a Shattered City by Rima Rantisi on @lithub https://lithub.com/losing-beirut-on-life-in-a-shattered-city/
ستستمرّ القنبلة تنفجر | طارق ابي سمرا https://megaphone.news/%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d9%86%d8%a8%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%86%d9%81%d8%ac%d8%b1 @megaphone_news
Paramedic Who Died in Beirut Explosion Is a Symbol of Lebanon’s Grief https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/middleeast/Beirut-explosion-paramedic-Fares.html
We Lebanese Thought We Could Survive Anything. We Were Wrong. by @warghetti https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/lebanon-coronavirus-economy.html
It sounded like the world itself was breaking open, by @warghetti https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/opinion/beirut-port-explosions.html
Time for a full clearout. Why we will not forgive the men who did this to Beirut by @warghetti https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/09/prepare-the-nooses-we-will-not-forgive-the-men-who-did-this-to-beirut?ref=hvper.com
