My Port of Beirut'A personal, impassioned account of a crime committed against the Lebanese people' New York Review of Books In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of the global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets, calling for the removal of a political elite accused of greed, negligence and incompetence. The Lebanese people felt as though their country was staring into the abyss. But the worst was yet to come. On the evening