Laleh Khalili, ‘Behind the Beirut explosion lies the lawless world of international shipping‘, The Guardian (via The Gamming – which has an important note about the title)

Her book Sinews of War and Trade was published by Verso earlier this year. See also this interview about the work.

Sara Fregonese, ‘The port of Beirut: vital, historic centre of a complex city‘ (The Conversation)

Update: a longer and updated piece on this topic is here.

Sara’s book War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon was published by Bloomsbury late last year.

Update 2: Loubna El Amine, Clearing the Rubble: Lebanon’s Future (London Review of Books)