'Who would have thought we’d get to this point?': Lebanese expatriates in Riyadh grapple with a new reality

Nour* had gradually grown accustomed to the explosions overhead in Riyadh. From her apartment in a skyscraper, the consultant regularly felt the building “tremble” with each missile interception since the outbreak of the regional war. But the recent deadly Houthi attacks on King Khalid International Airport changed everything. “What scared me was that, this time, it was targeted,” she says. Last Wednesday, as strikes on the airport began, she hurriedly left the kingdom on a Middle East Airlines flight that had not been canceled. Since then, her consulting firm has instructed employees to work remotely, without requiring them to remain in the country.'No one expected this'The scale of the attacks on Riyadh in recent days is unprecedented. On Saturday, an attack on the airport killed 13 people and injured more than 300. On Sunday,...