i'll be chopping tomatoes and suddenly I'm transported to that-time-i-was-somewhere-else, like when I stayed 3 weeks in Denver, or a month in Spain, and a week on Cyprus, and I also chopped tomatoes, but in a different place entirely.
You’ve got to admire the Lebanese. Yesterday was dark & sad in Beirut. Today hundreds, maybe thousands of young volunteers marched into the damaged areas and started cleaning & clearing rubble. - Our leaders do nothing, so we’ll bring Beirut back to life, they say. #BeirutBlast
One observation from a long walk through Beirut this afternoon: there is a remarkable volunteer effort to help clean up the debris and care for victims. People of all ages from across Lebanon. There is almost no visible sign of the state doing anything.
About 100 volunteers cleaning up Gemmayze Street in #Beirut crowd around French President Macron, chanting “the people deand the fall of the regime” and “President Michel Aoun is a terrorist.”
#Lebanon
I never ask but this is the last straw. Please help if you can, I have retweeted some links to donate to help Lebanon. There are thousands of people who are affected by the explosion and its aftermath and no resources at all. Your solidarity makes a difference.
My cousin sent me this video from our house in Damascus, with my favorite part of Eid: the chant from Badr Mosque. This clip is home.
كل عام وأنتو بخير
There a million things to say about the Lebanese uprising. This piece details how governance broke down across the country, in places where Lebanese could feel it most https://t.co/F1QNSclfLZ
In Beirut
1.5 million people, 1/4 of Lebanon’s entire population, protested against corruption, economic inequality and injustice today.
Standing in Solidarity with Lebanon.
Just WOW! ✊🏽✊🏾 🇱🇧