Dalal Mawad

Dalal Mawad is a Lebanese journalist and author who has reported on the Middle East for major international news organisations including the Associated Press. All She Lost is a powerful work of narrative journalism and memoir that documents the devastating impact of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, which killed over two hundred people, injured thousands and destroyed vast areas of the Lebanese capital. Mawad, who was in Beirut at the time of the blast, weaves her own experience with the stories of others affected by the catastrophe, creating an intimate and harrowing account of a city and its people in the aftermath of disaster. Her writing captures both the immediate horror of the explosion and the deeper context of political corruption, economic collapse and social fragmentation that made Lebanon vulnerable to such a tragedy. Her audiobooks and books offer readers a deeply human account of one of the twenty-first century's most devastating urban disasters.