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Two hours after the appalling explosion in Beirut flooded the news, agonizing replies from friends started coming through to my phone. Roni Helou, one of the most committed ethical young designers I know, DM’d: “I’m fine but my house and atelier are destroyed.” The Mukhi sisters, jewelry designers Maya, Meena, and Zeenat said: “We’re fine, but the shop’s badly damaged.” Salim Azzam, whose studio and workshops are in Chouf on Mount Lebanon, immediately posted an offer to give room for friends to sleep. Within hours, he was then posting Instagram stories from the blast-wrecked streets, showing young people mobilizing to help, and calling for others to “Come down and help any way you can.” Later, he told me, “You can’t just stay at home at a time like this. Everybody is here. Lebanese people are really well known for this. It’s taken our generation back to a war-time we never knew. But honestly, just seeing everyone together has been a boost to the soul.”
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Through western eyes, Beirut is perpetually partying or at war