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Aug 2021
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August 4th 2020: "It Sounded Like The Wo...

Elia Ayoub
About this episode

This is a special episode, initially recorded and released on August 7th 2020 with Lina Mounzer. 

I'm re-releasing it as it was. 

Twitter thread with reflections on this day https://twitter.com/joeyayoub/status/1422610135172714498 

#BeirutExplosion #BeirutBlast

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