One Year Since the Blast at the Port of Beirut & Part Two of Our Interview with Nasser Mohajer

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

This week, we bring you the second part of our conversation with Iranian scholar and researcher Nasser Mohajer about his new book Voices of a Massacre; Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988. Later in the program, we speak with Lara Bitar, the editor in chief of The Public Source, a Beirut-based independent media organization about the economic crisis in Lebanon and the one-year anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Additional resources: https://thepublicsource.org/disability-justice-beirut-blast https://thepublicsource.org/aug4/ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/beirut-explosion-what-happened-impact-force-analysis-investigation-engineering-blast-study-1.916971 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/05/01/lebanon-sinking-into-one-of-the-most-severe-global-crises-episodes https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/08/03/they-killed-us-inside/investigation-august-4-beirut-blast