Executive Magazine’s July/August issue

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It has been just over two weeks since the deadly Beirut Port explosion that killed at least 180, injured over 6,000, and left over a hundred thousand without homes. The impacts of this horrific event are still unfolding. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Lebanon’s most recent sit rep on the port explosion, covering the period from August 14 – 17, says that an estimated 70,000 workers have lost their jobs as a result of the blast, this coming amid an economic crisis that has improvished so much of the country—compounded by a coronavirus crisis that has, post blast, reasserted its threat through record increases in cases and a new lockdown scheduled for August 21 to September 6. Our July/August issue comes, not as intended in the first week of August, but instead in its third, a direct consequence of the blast. None of our