Waking Up in Beirut…

This morning, with tensions already running high in Lebanon over the opening of the Hariri assassination trial, a car/suicide bomb exploded in the Beqaa, killing at least five people and injuring many more. In response to the last few bomb attacks, security measures have been tightened all over Beirut, including in my neighborhood–with no one able to predict when or where the next bomb may go off…