Pierre Jarawan: 'In Lebanon, people fill the gaps in society with stories'

This week, a massive explosion of 2,700 tonnes of poorly preserved ammonium nitrate destroyed most of the Lebanese capital Beirut. For German-Lebanese writer Pierre Jarawan, who lives in Munich, the disaster is yet another black page in the history of Lebanon, which he himself has only just come to know. We spoke to him earlier via Zoom for this interview, but he has since informed us that his friends and family in his father's hometown are spaa...