The initial shock of the Beirut port explosion may be subsiding, but many Lebanese Australians who fled the country during its civil war are still trying to cope with the old wounds it has reopened.
It has been 35 years since Ghania Dib left war-torn Lebanon as a nine-year-old, but last month’s explosion in Beirut took her right back.“I remember I had to leave the office and go to the bathroom because I was wanting to throw up. It was a very, very significant physical response.”
When they returned to Lebanon for the last time in 1982, Tripoli was relatively shielded from the war in the south, and they thought they would stay for good. “I think my father managed to secure the final seven tickets on the ship, and from what I understand it was the last ship to leave.
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