
Hours after two professors were killed in a bombing at Beirut’s Lebanese University on Thur, Habib Al-Badawi, professor of international relations, Japanese studies and history at the state-run university, told TOI in an email that daily life on campus had been overtaken by anxiety.
“We are watching our neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, our families displaced, and our futures suspended indefinitely,” Al-Badawi said. “The psychological toll on the Lebanese people is immense.”