Mona Khalil, conservation specialist and initiator of the Orange House project, victim of the Israeli bombing on June 5. (Credit: Sarah Beydoun)
She was born in Lagos in 1949, the child of a Jabal Amel couple pushed to emigrate by Ottoman harassment. Torn from her native country at age 7, where she had grown up surrounded by nature, she returned to Lebanon with her family.Integration was difficult for a child who spoke little Arabic and lived with nostalgia for her lost paradise. It was the family's estate in Mansouri, in the Sour region, with its wild beach and seaside house, that reconciled her to her new life. Some context Mona Khalil, ‘guardian of the turtles’ of Mansouri, succumbs to injuries after Israeli strike on her home At 21, she married and gave birth to Omar. Adored by his mother, he would die tragically on the verge of adolescence, struck by a boat under the sun of Corfu as he gazed at starfish. Mona was devastated by the nameless grief of mothers who lose...
She was born in Lagos in 1949, the child of a Jabal Amel couple pushed to emigrate by Ottoman harassment. Torn from her native country at age 7, where she had grown up surrounded by nature, she returned to Lebanon with her family.Integration was difficult for a child who spoke little Arabic and lived with nostalgia for her lost paradise. It was the family's estate in Mansouri, in the Sour region, with its wild beach and seaside house, that reconciled her to her new life. Some context Mona Khalil, ‘guardian of the turtles’ of Mansouri, succumbs to injuries after Israeli strike on her home At 21, she married and gave birth to Omar. Adored by his mother, he would die tragically on the verge of adolescence, struck by a boat under the sun of Corfu as he gazed at starfish. Mona was devastated by the nameless grief of mothers who...
Fragile calm holds in south Lebanon, except for strikes in Nabatieh and Sour districts