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Bearing Witness To The Grief Of A City

Michael Karam, Development Communications Associate, The GroundTruth Project

17-Aug-20 09:37

Bearing Witness To The Grief Of A City

The warehouse explosion at the Port of Beirut on August 4th has brought a global spotlight on the political and economic fault lines within Lebanon. We speak to Lebanese journalist Michael Karam, on his experience of what happened and the political situation in the wake of the disaster.

You can read his article for The GroundTruth Project on observations of the aftermath here.

https://thegroundtruthproject.org/helping-beirut-dig-out-bearing-witness-explosion/

Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar


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Categories:  Politics,  Law and Legal Matters,  Business Analysis,  Social Issues

Tags:  Beirut,  Lebanon,  explosion,  protests,  sectarian, 


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