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All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women Who Survive - Between Civil War, Israel and Hezbollah
'Poignant and compelling' - Lindsey Hilsum
'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. Journalist Dalal Mawad weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity. On August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people - it is the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon's unprecedented collapse. Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the devastating blast occurred and was one of the first journalists to report on it. She set out to record the stories of those long discriminated against, mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation's collapse, who remembers Beirut's glory days of the 1960s. Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more.Book Details
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
- Publish Date: May 6th, 2025
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.79in - 5.08in - 1.00in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781399406260
- Categories: • World - Middle Eastern• Middle East - General• Refugees
About the Author
Mawad, Dalal: -
Dalal Mawad is an independent award-winning Lebanese journalist based in Paris, France. She is working as freelance producer for CNN in Paris and as a part-time journalism professor at Sciences Po. Mawad was a senior producer with the Associated Press based in Lebanon when twin blasts rocked Beirut on August 4th 2020. She extensively covered the explosion and its aftermath as well as Lebanon's economic and financial crisis since 2019. Her AP bylines have been published in the Washington Post and New York Times.
Mawad is the winner of the Samir Kassir Award for the Freedom of the Press in 2020 for her short film on a transgender woman in Lebanon, and was a finalist in 2012 for an investigative story on Lebanon's Jews. Mawad has also worked as a regional video producer for the United Nations Refugee Agency covering displacement in the Middle East and the world. Previous to her work at the UN, she was an on-air reporter with LBCI, a Lebanese broadcaster, where she mainly covered human rights and gender-based violence. She has a Master's degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and another Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York where she was awarded the Joan Konner award for outstanding reporting for Television and Radio. She is fluent in Arabic, French, English and Spanish.Praise for this book
"A courageous and essential piece of journalism. It is a documentation of one of the most scandalous disasters of this century so far, including the corruption and negligence of Lebanon's leadership, and the human stories of those most affected by grave wrongdoing, for which there has still been no justice." --Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned and journalist for the Irish Times
"A poignant and compelling account of the collapse of a state. Will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power." --Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm "In her essential and urgent book, Dalal Mawad bears testament to the collapse of Lebanon. Told through the voices of courageous women, this oral history is also warning to all nations that let impunity seep through their foundations." --Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black Wave "All She Lost gives voice not just to the women who endured Lebanon's catastrophic port explosion but reveals the burden they have carried for years." --Quentin Somerville, BBC Middle East Correspondent "In this sensitive and striking collective memoir, Dalal Mawad gives a voice to those who bear the brunt of the economic and political implosion characterising their homeland's modern collapse." --Anoosh Chakelian, Britain Editor of the New Statesman "A deeply important, compelling and moving account of a dark moment in Lebanon's history, beautifully told through gripping personal stories of Lebanese women. Dalal Mawad does not just tell the story of Lebanon, but the story of women and the Middle East." --Ramita Navai, Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award-winning journalist and author of City of Lies "A beautiful new voice for the unheard." --Janine di Giovanni, journalist and author of The Morning They Came For Us "A painful but necessary book that recounts, with both great compassion and artistry, yet another fatal episode of Lebanon's serial tragedies. " --Joumana Haddad, author of I Killed Scheherazade "This is a deeply reported and powerful account on the collapse of a country. The testimony that Lebanese journalist Dalal Mawad has gathered is remarkable - and her empathy for all the woman she interviewed shines through on every page." --Martin Patience, Senior Producer at NPR "While Dalal's own painful experiences vividly frame her writing, it is the astonishing accounts of the women she features that illuminate Lebanon's dark history with their struggle for justice and dignity. An emotionally gripping and enlightening journey." --Melissa Fleming, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, and author of A Hope More Powerful than the Sea