All She Lost

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In 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people - it began a sequence of events that have left the country on the brink of collapse. Award-winning CNN journalist Dalal Mawad has interviewed hundreds of Middle Eastern women - victims of the explosion, and those stuck in Lebanon - and weaves an extraordinary story of corruption, survival, and the stories that are left behind. Award-winning CNN journalist Dalal Mawad was half a mile from the blast and was one of a handful of journalists who set out that day to track down the cause of the explosions. Now, after years of reporting on the victims of the explosion and helping to uncover the corruption that allowed this tragedy to happen, she sees it as one more stitch in the fabric of the Middle East's long and painful history. During her reporting she discovered something else - that as with Syria and Afghanistan before it, it is the women who stay behind, and it is through their stories that the history of the wider Middle East must be re-constructed. She set out to record the stories of those she met, the women long discriminated against, and those who still found themselves without a voice. She spoke to women who have fled from Iraq, Syria and Iran - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the grandmother, bankrupted by the damage from the blast, who remembers Lebanon's glory days of the 1960s - when Brigitte Bardot came to live in Beirut. The young women in their twenties, stuck in an immigration limbo after fleeing death and destruction in Syria, badly burned by the blast and unable to find a hospital that will take them. And the women like Dalal herself, who have left their home behind. The women in this book all experienced the explosion and suffered unimaginable loss and tragedy, but it is not just this one event that brings them together. Their personal stories combine to tell a longer story of Lebanon itself, 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 the Middle East that is no more.