A day after an explosion in Beirut injured more than 5,000 people, Israa Seblani returned to the site where she was when the deadly blast struck. The shocking moment was captured on camera as Seblani was posing for her wedding video. “What happened during the explosion here – there is no word to explain … I was shocked, I was wondering what happened, am I going to die? How am I going to die?” the 29-year-old Lebanese bride said. Seblani, a doctor working in the United States, said she loved Lebanon but felt that after the blast, living there was no longer an option
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Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been conducted, but 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to 2.2 million as part of Greater Beirut, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the fifteenth-largest in the Arab world.
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The official language, Arabic, is the most common language spoken by the citizens of Lebanon. Its capital is Beirut.
Lebanon was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and is a member of the Arab League (1945), the Non-Aligned Movement (1961), Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (1969), and the Organisation internationale de la francophonie (1973).
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