When explosions were triggered in pockets of alleged Hezbollah operatives on September 17 and 18 and when Israeli airplanes started bombing Lebanese targets while their Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was showing to the United Nations General Assembly what he thought of the UN’s vociferous political theater and diplomatic rituals in the name of peace, triggering a wave of fear and displacement north of their border, some civil society organizations around Lebanon leapt into unprecedented and intuitive action. ”On September 23, I think it was a Monday, we decided to use the money from the concert,” Dahlia Dagher, president of Stouh Beirut Association tells Executive about the organization’s pivot to immediately assisting displaced Lebanese with humanitarian materials and away from the final hustle of ticket sales in preparing for a charity event scheduled for September 27 at the prestigious Casino du Liban. “After the pagers [have been exploding], it was a
