Beirut Explosion

Opinion

Lebanon: “Human Shields” to Deter Beirut Blast Investigation

Diana Moukalled
The battle against the Beirut Port investigation has never been so blatantly straightforward as it is today. Hezbollah has decided to use the families of the victims in a way that militants use human shields at the heart of the battlefield.
Investigations

Investigation: Ownership of Beirut Port Chemicals that Exploded

OCCRP
A year after a massive shipment of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, an OCCRP investigation has settled one of the biggest lingering questions: who actually owned the cargo.
Opinion

I Don’t Want To Remember

Ghalia Al Alwani- Syrian Journalist
Repression isn’t forgetting. They tell me to never forget, as if I ever will. I won’t ever forget. I won’t ever forget the glass, the blood, the screams or the panic.
Opinion

As a Mother, I Wish I Could Silence the Sea

Farah Shaqir
I never wrote anything about the Aug. 4 explosion in my mother tongue. Because I am a mother. And the explosion made me a fragile mother. And with this fragility, my mother tongue too became fragile. My writing today is an attempt to recover my mother tongue.
Investigations

Lebanon’s Missing Offer Little Hope for Beirut Blast Victims

Myriam Sweidan
Lebanon finally installed a national commission to deal with the many thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared during the Civil War. It was hardly up and running before half its members resigned …
Investigations

Dear Lebanon: Nando’s Is Not The House it Once Was

Wissam Assouad
A heartfelt eyewitness account of August 4, 2020. Wissam was with his friends in Karantina until an hour before the explosion. Moments later, he rushed back to a scene of utter devastation to see if any of them were still alive.
Investigations

Beirut Blast: The Number of Missing Still has not Reached Zero

Jana Barakat
“I want to know where my son is. Until now I don’t have any information about his fate.” It has been over two months since the Beirut port explosion, and still people are missing …
Investigations

The Beirut Blast Is Not Over; Dima Passed Away 83 Days Later

Marwa Saab
It is as if the explosion that produced a gaping hole in the ground has opened a similar one in heaven, which continues to receive the souls of the crime’s victims, even after 83 days have passed.
Opinion

Who Killed Elias Khoury?

Hazem El Amin
Elias Khoury has become the symbol of our failure to convince his generation – our sons – that Lebanon is a country worth living in. Our sons would say: ‘Look at Elias’ photo. Is that what you want for us too?’
News

Aounists: The “Ceylon Tea” and Customs are Ours, You Can Have Bafflement Though

Hazem El Amin
The news of the Ceylon tea incident might have been less complicated but more striking than other news, since it was chosen to be announced by the National News Agency (NNA). A clear-cut piece of news, no beating around the bush! The tea that had been donated to the blast victims was distributed to the officers and elements of the Presidential Guard brigade.

The English Section of Daraj News is co-supported by Anne Avis

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