In this episode Mariam talks to Amal Dib, a Lebanese researcher and journalist based in Berlin? Amal talks about the pain, grief, devestation and shock following the Beirut explosion. We talk about how a barely surviving city, with a collapsing economy was wiped away. Amal explains more about the context in which the explosion happened, Lebanon during COVID-19, politics, misgovernance, national bankrupty and the migrant victims we don’t hear about.