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After the murders of a number of young women and men by suicide bombers over the past few weeks in Lebanon, it was just a matter of time before an app was created to make family and friends aware of one’s status in the wake of an attack.
This week, a new app, “I am Alive” (which tweets “I am still alive!” with the hashtags #Lebanon and #LatestBombing) was launched by Sandra Hassan, a 26-year-old Lebanese graduate student in Paris.
From the recent “Not a Martyr” Campaign to this new app, young people from Lebanon are pushing to have their voices heard. What else will they have to say?
We are victims, not martyrs. We refuse to become martyrs. We refuse to remain victims.
We refuse to die a collateral death.
We are angry, sad, and frustrated with the current situation in our country. But we are not hopeless.
And we have dreams for our country.
We know we are not alone.
— “Not a Martyr” Campaign
