“Most people here in the US don’t know much about what’s happening in the rest of the world. So when you’re from the rest of the world, you feel a little alienated. Because your whole world is falling apart and your friends want to go to a restaurant or to go party somewhere...
Things were really going on in Lebanon. Nobody knew what was going to happen. And then the Beirut blast explosion happened. That was really the cherry on top. Half the city got destroyed. Many people lost heir homes. 300,000 people lost their homes. 200 people died on the spot, so many people died after from their injuries. 10,000 people were injured. All the neighborhoods around the port which are the Armenian neighborhoods and the artistic neighborhoods were completely destroyed. It was horrible, horrible news...”
