Beirut 2020
ISBN-13: 9781635421781
Contributor(s): Charif Majdalani (author), Ruth Diver (author)
Subject: History
Publisher Imprint: Other Press
Publication Date: 05-08-2021
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£12.99
About the book
At the start of the summer of 2020, in a Lebanon ruined by economic crisis and inflation, in an exhausted Beirut rising up for true democracy while the world was paralysed by the coronavirus, Charif Majdalani set about writing a journal. He intended to bear witness to this terrible, confusing time, to confront it with his experience, his reflections, and his emotions - and perhaps he also hoped to endure it through writing. This chronicle of suffocation and collapse collided on August 4 with the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut. From then on, it became a record of the catastrophe and the resulting outburst.