At 28, Thurayya left behind the Beirut neighbourhood where she was born and moved to the family farm, not because of environmental concerns but forced there by Lebanon’s bruising crises. “Living in the city has become very miserable,” she told AFP from the lush south Lebanon farmland planted with avocado trees that is now her home. “The quiet violence of city life sucks you dry of energy, of money… It was just too much.” Lebanon’s unprecedented economic crisis, the coronavirus pandemic and last year’s massive and deadly explosion of chemical fertiliser at Beirut’s port have dimmed the cosmop…

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