Reeling from deep economic crisis, COVID-19, and now the blasts, Lebanon needs women at the centre of recovery plans. Date: Thursday, August 13, 2020 A woman in front of a destroyed house, Karantina, Beirut. August 9, 2020. Photo: Dar Al Mussawir Zalloukh Al Maraanazi, a Syrian refugee now living in Beirut, Lebanon, was resting on the couch when everything started shaking in the afternoon of 4 August. `My son was playing on the balcony when it happened; he literally flew up and landed on the deck. Thankfully, he only has mild bruises,` she said. The Al Maraanazi family lived in the neighbourhood of Tariq El Jdide, less than 10 Km away from the port of Beirut, where two explosions occurred on...
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