Norvergence: On 4 August, a blast in the port of Beirut crushed whole neighborhoods, murdering more than 180 individuals, harming thousands, and uprooting near 300,000 individuals. As the nation attempts to recoup, those in Lebanon and outside are inquiring as to whether the city will in reality ascend from the rubble.
Norvergence: For some in the west, their picture of Beirut is one in the pains of common war, the "Paris of the Middle East", leveled to the ground and loaded up with rubble. Furthermore, today, Beirut looks simply like that. Once more.
Norvergence: While we grieve for the individuals dead, and as yet absent, for those harmed and for the areas that have now changed to the point of being unrecognizable, we should not romanticize the Beirut we lost.
Lebanon before 4 August was one where disparities were overflowing and apparent, and in every case inadequately tended to. It was a nation previously incapacitated by layers of debacle – financial breakdown, government defilement, ecological emergency, partisan divisions, neediness and, most as of late, the Covid-19 pandemic.
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