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After the Blast
Last summer’s explosion in Beirut devastated much of the city. My efforts to repair my apartment reveal a lot about how Lebanon works and doesn’t.
This article was published online on March 12, 2021.
I had never really thought about my windows, about the thickness of the panes or the type of glass. Like so many things that I’ll never again take for granted, they were simply there, and then they were gone. My apartment in the Lebanese capital is a brisk walk away from the city’s now-infamous port, the site of a massive explosion on August 4. Shortly after 6 p.m., some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, recklessly and improperly stored since 2014 in a facility called Warehouse 12, suddenly ignited. The explosion was one of the largest nonnuclear blasts ever recorded, with a force so great that it rattled windows in Cyprus, about 150 miles away across the Mediterranean Sea. It sent a mushroom cloud into the sky and lethal shock waves mostly through
Richard Breaux is an Associate Professor of Ethnic & Racial Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is A 78 RPM record collector and the creator of “Midwest Mahjar: The Recorded Sounds of the Syrian/Lebanese Diaspora at 78 RPM,” a blog that focuses on musicians of Arab descent in the United States before 1961.
DUBAI: They say that history repeats itself. The political turmoil in Lebanon and the ongoing civil war in Syria have led to an alarming exodus of thousands of young, educated Arabs seeking safety and better opportunities abroad. It’s a familiar pattern; a similar mass migration from the Levant took place a century ago.
By the early 1900s, the United States was a major destination for immigrants from around the world. It is estimated that around 100,000 Arabs, hailing predominantly from modern-day Syria and Lebanon (collectively referred to as ‘Greater Syria’ and under Ottoman rule at the time) made their way to America between 1880 and 1940, seeking economic prosperity.
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NNA - Lebanese Democratic Party Chairman, MP Mir Talal Arslan, quoted the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, of his keenness on the serious approach to complete the formation of the upcoming government in the near future, taking into account correct representation. Arslan stressed that “It is not permissible, under any consideration, circumstance, or excuse that the Druze community is being dealt with by diminishing its rights to gain private interests for some at the expense of the general national interest, and that is based on our conviction that this country is a country of diversity, unity and common coexistence, and has privacy where no one can eliminate anyone in it”. MP Arslan also considered that all the approaches that some have tried to