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Shock and Aftershock: a Psychologist’s Vista on Beirut 2020

Olivia Shabb

When patients ask: “How are you”? I wonder: how much mirror do I give, and how much rock?

Beirut Blast: Liliane Chaito Wakes up Without Access to Her Son.

Diana Moukalled

The last survivor of the Beirut Port explosion awoke from her 25-day coma only to start a long battle to see her only child. What is Liliane Chaito’s story?

Investigations

Lebanon: Where Would We Be Without the Youth?

Ghalia Al Alwani- Syrian Journalist

In the aftermath of a freak event or a natural disaster, it is normal for guilt, pain and fear to be a part of the equation for those who witnessed it, but the absence of reliable formal state institutions to provide urgent support adds to the pile a giant burden on the backs of the youth in the city. The supportive void is so large, in the midst of an also gigantic Pandora’s box of ailments in the country, that the need for their informal manpower becomes incredibly urgent.

Opinion

Fairouz’s Locked Door

Pascale Sawma

In great awe, we watched their leaked pictures after the meeting, which took place on the quiet away from the media. It was as if we just found out that Fairouz was real, that she has a house, a laugh and that her door was open… but not for us.

Opinion

Beirut’s Blast: I Feel Like a Dead Body Walking in the Streets!

Elie Keldani

He picked up a pack of cigarettes to show me what was written on it: “Smoking kills,” he said, “Beirut kills, not smoking.” A little girl approached him, laying her face on his shoulder. He looked at me again and said: “I do not need help, just take the girl and her brother out of the country to live. I don’t want them to die here.”

Opinion

Lebanon: Political Leaders Terrified by the Gallows Resort to Emergency Law

Diana Moukalled

The symbolic gallows and the calls for accountability for those at the top of the authority pyramid in Lebanon, not those at the bottom, was the problem that angered Lebanon’s leaders and perhaps made them really fear for their lives.

Opinion

Strangers

Bunasser Al-Taffar – Lebanese writer and rapper

All we had wanted when we left was survival, but today we want something even simpler than that. We merely want a hug from our family members, to remove the mountainous weight from our chests, which the murderous Lebanese authorities have accumulated there. We wish to hear any good news from Lebanon, any… but unfortunately, our homeland only sends us sorrow, misery, oppression and more alienation.

News

Beirut’s Explosion: The Curse and Accountability

Alia Ibrahim- Lebanese writer and journalist

In their capacity as the governing authority by force of arms, Hezbollah bears the major responsibility for the Beirut blast, but this never absolves those who turned a blind eye to the equation that brought him to power in the first place.

News

Beirut Explosion: Dead Inside Living Bodies

Jad Shahrour

Smoke rising, bloody scenes, and broken-down cars in the middle of the road, as if we were in a Hollywood film. Women and children with torn clothes, their faces covered with blood, shocked, wounded and civilians’ faces injured with glass chips. It’s another Chernobyl.

blast

Shock and Aftershock: a Psychologist’s Vista on Beirut 2020

Beirut Blast: Liliane Chaito Wakes up Without Access to Her Son.

Lebanon: Where Would We Be Without the Youth?

Fairouz’s Locked Door

Beirut’s Blast: I Feel Like a Dead Body Walking in the Streets!

Lebanon: Political Leaders Terrified by the Gallows Resort to Emergency Law

Strangers

Beirut’s Explosion: The Curse and Accountability

Beirut Explosion: Dead Inside Living Bodies

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