Beirut's Deadly Port Explosion, One Year Later
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🗓️ 4 August 2021
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| 0:00.0 | On the first night of Eid El-Adhal last month, the Muslim holiday, people packed Beirut's |
| 0:08.5 | Cornish, a popular seaside promenade. |
| 0:10.9 | There's families here, children everywhere, just supposed to two little girls running |
| 0:15.3 | around in big white puffy dresses. |
| 0:18.6 | MPR Course Fun at Rooster Lock was there to see how everyone was celebrating. |
| 0:22.6 | Eid is typically a time of prayer, of gift giving, of feasting. |
| 0:27.5 | How are you experiencing Eid this year? |
| 0:31.2 | And she met a family of three sisters with their husbands and kids. |
| 0:34.8 | The seed is seed. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I knew. |
| 0:38.0 | I had a lot of time. |
| 0:39.6 | I ate. |
| 0:40.6 | No, no. |
| 0:41.6 | 14-year-old Miriam Salah said, Eid? |
| 0:44.2 | There is no Eid. |
| 0:46.1 | When asked if they've done any of the things families typically do at this time, like, |
| 0:49.9 | buy clothes for the children or enjoy a big meal together. |
| 0:53.7 | The question itself seemed totally ridiculous to them. |
| 0:58.9 | No, no. |
| 0:59.9 | We haven't had sheep or chicken or burgers or anything, said Salah's aunt, a beer |
| 1:12.0 | al-Masri. |
| 1:13.0 | All of that is too expensive now. |
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