Lebanese writer Charif Majdalani writes disaster

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Lebanese writer Charif Majdalani.

@ Roger Gerges

By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

Breaking away from writing novels, Lebanese writer Charif Majdalani began journaling from July 1, 2020, as a foreboding of the disaster to come.

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Diary of a collapse

is the daily story of the Lebanese capital, of its inhabitants, faced with the economic, health and political crisis until this deadly explosion of August 4, 2020 in the port of Beirut.

Beirut 2020. Diary of a collapse

is published by Actes Sud editions.

The book has just received the Special Mention of the Jury of the Femina Prize.

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