On January 2, a piercing boom ripped through Beirut. A car bomb placed near a Hezbollah security zone had exploded, leaving five people dead_and dozens more injured – a consequence of the Syrian conflict arousing old regional rivalries. It was the seventh such attack throughout Lebanon in six months. And Sandra Hassan had had enough. “I am currently in Paris pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health, and I have a few Lebanese friends here as well,” Hassan, a 27-year-old Lebanese native, explains. “Whenever we heard of an explosion, our hearts would sink and we’d rush to our phones and...

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