@majdal @liaizon I think it was that awful explosion in 2020 that made Beirut real for me. Prior to that it had just been a place I heard about on the news when I was a teenager, and then silent. But the pictures after the explosion, and everything we learned about how it happened, suddenly made it a real, living place.And now it's being deliberately bombed. Again. It's really heartbreaking.
M
