Beyroshima, My Love

Sabine Fakih
4 min readAug 12, 2020
Byblos, Lebanon, summer of 2014

So much ink and blood have been spilled on telling the story of Beirut. It is the story of a city that inspires lyricism. Nonetheless, Beirut failed to understand its future killers; it was unable to realize that they wanted to eliminate, murder, and burn it without remorse. So, this is the story of a government that committed democide.

The world of bribery, stolen wealth, and corruption spread like a web in one of Lebanon’s…

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Sabine Fakih

PhD Candidate at The Autonomous University of Barcelona specializing in War Journalism and Trauma Reporting in the Middle East