All She Lost - The Explosion in Lebanon, Collapse of a Nation Women who Survive

''Poignant and compelling'' - Lindsey Hilsum ''Essential and urgent'' - Kim Ghattas Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. Journalist Dalal Mawad weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity. On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people - it is the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon''s unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the devastating blast occurred and was one of the first journalists to report on it. She set out to record the stories of those long discriminated against, mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation''s collapse, who remembers Beirut''s glory days of the 1960s. Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more.>

About the author

Dalal Mawad is an independent award-winning Lebanese journalist based in Paris, France. She is working as freelance producer for CNN in Paris and as a part-time journalism professor at Sciences Po. Mawad was a senior producer with the Associated Press based in Lebanon when twin blasts rocked Beirut on August 4th 2020. She extensively covered the explosion and its aftermath as well as Lebanon's economic and financial crisis since 2019. Her AP bylines have been published in the Washington Post and New York Times.

Product details

• Authors: Dalal Mawad
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781399406260
• ISBN: 978-1-399-40626-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Middle East / General, Lebanon, HISTORY / Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Press & journalism, c 2000 to c 2010, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Gender studies: women and girls, c 2010 to c 2020, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)