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Scientific Reports, 2021 Atmospheric waves excited by strong surface explosions, both natural and anthropogenic, often disturb upper atmosphere. In this letter, we report an N-shaped pulse with period ~ 1.3 min propagating southward at ~ 0.8 km/s, observed as changes in ...
B. Kundu +3 more
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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2021 August 4, 2020, at 6:07 pm, I was sitting down, unwinding with my family, when the floor of our apartment began to shake. I knew the drill. As an emergency physician who had relocated to Beirut a decade ago, I had been through it countless times.
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Exploring Beirut’s instability through its informal mobility
Urbani Izziv, 2021 The present article addresses the transformations of Beirut, Lebanon’s public transport system from its establishment in the 1890s until its disruption during the Lebanese civil war of 1975–1989.
Christine Mady
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Beirut Explosion: Challenge of Hospital Emergency Preparedness.
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2022 On August 4, 2020, a major explosion took place in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Some hospitals in Beirut were destroyed and became nonfunctional, and others were overwhelmed with casualties, with 8643 casualties admitted to emergency departments on ...
M. Helou +2 more
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Narrative-Time Techniques in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish: The Case of “Madih ul-Zell el-Ali” Ode [PDF]
دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2017 Literature plays a major role in the cognitive and mental world. Poetry, among other things in literature, may overcome many of the limitations in literature which structural barriers impose.
Ali salimi, Hamed Poorheshmati
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Yield estimation of the 2020 Beirut explosion using open access waveform and remote sensing data
Scientific Reports, 2020 We report on a multi-technique analysis using publicly available data for investigating the huge, accidental explosion that struck the city of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020.
C. Pilger +7 more
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Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels [PDF]
, 2017 I argue that young Lebanese novelists like Sahar Mandour and Hilal Chouman mobilize the ordinary as a way to 'write out' of the literary legacy of war and trauma writing that have characterized Lebanese fiction, without denying or suppressing Lebanon's ...
Ghenwa Hayek
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 The objective was to assess the prevalence of anemia and nutritional status of mothers and children under five years among Syrian refugees in Lebanon and to identify nutritional deficiencies among pregnant, lactating, and non-pregnant non-lactating ...
Joana Abou-Rizk +7 more
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Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 2022 On August 4th, 2020, Beirut was torn apart by a chemical explosion at its port. The blast was a consequence of dire government negligence – killing over 200 people, injuring a further 6,500, and causing massive destruction.
C. Skinner
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From the Port City of Beirut to Beirut Central District
Spool, 2021 The repeated destructions and reconstructions of Beirut have been widely acknowledged and conveyed from one generation to the next through different narratives, anecdotes, literature, and popular cultural productions. This paper describes the historical
Roula El Khoury, Paola Ardizzola
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