A Year After Beirut Port Atrocity, Time For A New Sovereign Lebanon – OpEd

By Baria Alamuddin*

Over 200 people died in the Beirut port explosion on Aug. 4 last year. The survivors, too, have been abandoned to slow, torturous deaths from hunger, poverty, lack of medicine and the political turmoil yet to come. People lost everything that day; their families, their health, their possessions — 300,000...