Renate Mattar
Renate Mattar is a doctoral candidate researching postcolonial literature and postmemory. She writes fiction and nonfiction.
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Remembering the Beirut Explosion
During the 2020 Beirut port blast, everyone in the city with a camera phone and social media account became a reporter of some sort, and the catastrophe opened the door to a new way of experiencing history. What the algorithm reshared became instant archival material that still has an important story to tell.