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The explosion in the Port of Beirut was one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts in history – releasing enough energy in a matter of milliseconds to power more than 100 homes for a year – according to a new assessment Researchers from the department’s Blast and Impact Engineering Research Group, hope that the new assessment can be used to provide policymakers …

Rola El-Husseini, Lund University Since the explosion in Beirut I’ve listened repeatedly to the song Ya Beirut (Oh Beirut) by the Lebanese diva Majida al-Roumi, while obsessively reading the news and checking on extended family members – like any other expatriate Lebanese. The song, which was originally a poem by the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, describes the city as it …