In our first two episodes, we shed light on the explosion of August 4th and the situation in Beirut in the aftermath. The explosion marked the dramatic low point of a phase of economic, financial and political decline driven by the Lebanese political...

One month after the explosions, Beirut is still tumbling. The French president Macron has intervened to form a new government independent of the Shia militias Amal and Hezbollah. At the same time, repeated fires broke out at the harbor and in downtown,...

At 6:08pm, on August 4th 2020, Beirut was shook by the most powerful non-nuclear explosion since the end of the second world war. The blast caused at least 178 deaths, thousands of injuries, and left an estimated 300,000 people homeless. It was linked...