Beirut, despite everything

Corruption, economic collapse and revolution: the story of a Lebanon in search of a better future. This album traces the story of Robert Sacy, a Lebanese doctor. The 73-year-old doctor has had an eventful life, just like Lebanon. He has went through the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) and the reconstruction of the years 1990-2000. For more justice social in a country where inequalities are the rule, he creates the first service public pediatrician in Beirut in 2016. He then took part in the uprisings popular of 2019 alongside the youth of the country with great hope, then saw its hospital destroyed by the explosion at the port of Beirut in 2020. It was On this tragic occasion we met Dr. Sacy, haggard, in the ruins of his hospital blown up by the explosion. From this meeting was born a report for Arte, Lebanon: in the chaos of hospitals (nominated at the Festival International Major Current Affairs Reporting – FIGRA). Since then, the doctor has raised. He now faces the country's economic collapse and the specter of the return of war since October 2023. Through the story of Robert Sacy, told by Sophie Guignon and Chloé Domat, correspondents in Lebanon and illustrated by Kamal Hakim, Lebanese cartoonist, this album is a window to understand contemporary Lebanon. Between commitment, fight and hope for a more lenient future.