{"id":2475,"date":"2020-09-14T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:06","slug":"op-ed-what-the-beirut-blast-means-for-lebanons-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2020\/op-ed-what-the-beirut-blast-means-for-lebanons-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: What the Beirut Blast means for Lebanon\u2019s Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Op-Ed: What the Beirut Blast means for Lebanon\u2019s Refugees\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month\u2019s Beirut Blast impacted thousands of people in the country, particularly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lebanon\u2019s refugee population, who a majority of which are living below the poverty line and experience frequent food insecurity.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2020\/dr-ola-el-taliawi-bridging-the-gap-between-public-policy-and-refugee-studies\/\">Dr. Ola G. El-Taliawi<\/a>, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University, recently co-authored an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecairoreview.com\/essays\/what-the-beirut-blast-means-for-lebanons-refugees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">op-ed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that explains the alarming consequences for refugee populations in Lebanon amidst the Beirut explosion and COVID-19 pandemic, as well as offers recommendations for the international donor community to reform its aid strategy into an inclusive one that includes nationals and refugees as co-stakeholders in rebuilding and disaster mitigation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To read the full op-ed, click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecairoreview.com\/essays\/what-the-beirut-blast-means-for-lebanons-refugees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month\u2019s Beirut Blast impacted thousands of people in the country, particularly Lebanon\u2019s refugee population, who a majority of which are living below the poverty line and experience frequent food insecurity.&nbsp; Dr. Ola G. El-Taliawi, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Refugee Policy at the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University, recently co-authored an op-ed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,460],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ola-el-taliawi","tag-articles"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}