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My Port of Beirut / Lamia Ziadé ; translated by Emma Ramadan.

Ziadé, Lamia, (author.). Ramadan, Emma, (translator.).

Summary:

"On the evening of August 4, 2020, an explosion tore through Beirut, leaving nearly 200 people dead, 6,000 injured, and 300,000 homeless. The blast was caused by storing thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate alongside a stash of fireworks--a deadly arrangement about which the government had known but done nothing. For six months straight, French Lebanese author and artist Lamia Ziadé wrote, illustrated, and recorded every new piece of information, every photograph of the wreckage or the wounded. In My Port of Beirut, Ziadé weaves together the play-by-play of the tragedy and the history of Lebanon with her own personal stories and her participation in the 2019 protests against state corruption, laying out the historical and political background that made such a catastrophe possible and, perhaps, inevitable."--Amazon

Record details

ISBN: 9780745348124 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0745348122 (Paperback)
Physical Description: 223 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2023.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published by P.O.L éditeur as Mon port de Beyrouth, 2021.'--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The Sirens of the Port of Beirut -- 2. The Heroes -- 3. "A steamer enters the haze of the Port of Beirut" -- 4. The Sorcery of Objects -- 5. The Orthodox Hospital -- 6. Lady Cochrane -- 7. The Third Basin -- 8. My Sister's Friends -- 9. Guilt -- 10. Sacy and Noun -- 11. The Criminals -- 12. Report on the Port, 1956 -- 13. My Father's Stubbornness -- 14. A Peaceful and Gentle People -- 15. My Sister on the Telephone -- 16. Who? -- 17. Beirut, Nest of Spies -- 18. The Port, Like the Country -- 19. Thawra, birth of a nation -- 20. October 17 -- 21. Things take a turn.
Language Note:	In English, translated from the French.