''Poignant and compelling'' - Lindsey Hilsum ''Essential and urgent'' - Kim Ghattas Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. Journalist Dalal Mawad weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity. On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people - it is the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon''s unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the devastating blast occurred and was one of the first journalists to report on it. She set out to record the stories of those long discriminated against, mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation''s collapse, who remembers Beirut''s glory days of the 1960s. Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more.>

While Dalal's own painful experiences vividly frame her writing, it is the astonishing accounts of the women she features that illuminate Lebanon's dark history with their struggle for justice and dignity. An emotionally gripping and enlightening journey.

Vorwort
Journalist Dalal Mawad weaves the voices of women who survived the August 2020 explosion in Beirut in an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity.

Autorentext
Dalal Mawad is an independent award-winning Lebanese journalist based in Paris, France. She is working as freelance producer for CNN in Paris and as a part-time journalism professor at Sciences Po. Mawad was a senior producer with the Associated Press based in Lebanon. She extensively covered the August 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath as well as Lebanon's economic and financial crisis. Her AP bylines have been published in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Zusammenfassung
'Poignant and compelling' - Lindsey Hilsum 'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. Journalist Dalal Mawad weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity. On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people - it is the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon's unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the devastating blast occurred and was one of the first journalists to report on it. She set out to record the stories of those long discriminated against, mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation's collapse, who remembers Beirut's glory days of the 1960s. Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more.