BEIRUT (NYTIMES) - I was just about to look at a video a friend had sent me on Tuesday (Aug 4) afternoon - 'the port seems to be burning', she said - when my whole building shook, as if startled, by the deepest boom I'd ever heard. Uneasily, naïvely, I ran to the window, then back to my desk to check for news.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIRUT - I was just about to look at a video a friend had sent me on Tuesday afternoon -"the port seems to be burning", she said - when my whole building shook, as if startled, by the deepest boom I'd ever heard. Uneasily, naïvely, I ran to the window, then back to my desk to check for news.
My yellow front door had been hurled on top of my dining table. I couldn't find my passport, or even any sturdy shoes. When I got downstairs, dodging the enormous broken window that rested jaggedly in my stairwell, my neighbourhood, with its graceful old-Beirut architecture and arched windows, looked like a picture from the wars I had seen from afar - a mouth missing all its teeth.
As I neared the hospital, elderly patients sat dazed in wheelchairs in the streets, still hooked to their IV bags. A woman lay on the ground in front of the exploded emergency room, her whole body dripping red, not moving much. It was clear that they weren't taking new patients, certainly not any as comparatively lucky as I was.
His roommate swept up their terrace as I bloodied their towels."I can't think unless it's clean," he explained.
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