At roughly 5.53pm on August 4, Moe Minkara and the team at marketing communications agency Mink left their office overlooking the Port of Beirut. It was the first time since the agency had moved to Saifi that they left work before 6pm.
Everyone knows what happened next. At 6.08pm, an estimated 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in the port’s hangar 12 exploded, causing at least 200 deaths, 6,500 injuries, and displacing more than 300,000 people.
“There are no words that can properly describe my reaction to the explosion,” says …