"Calm down. You're okay. Everything is going to be okay."
Indeed, she was alive and so grateful that she was. But something had changed. This sound, the glass, the screams, the blatant silence after the disaster. The fear, the hopelessness and the despair. They live on inside her mind that keeps on replaying the scene. The blast of August 4, 2020. A blast that shook an entire city and left something broken in each citizen of Beirut.
Watercolour “Beirut after the blast” by Bénédicte de Vanssay Moubarak