Many Lebanese were already looking for such escape hatches before the Aug 4 explosion. Since the explosion, countries like Canada have been hit by a wave of applications from young Lebanese seeking to emigrate, officials say. “I’ve always wanted just to leave.”Like young people across the Arab world, their generation is well educated yet underemployed. A week later, the station, which he christened Nation Station, buzzed with about 200 young volunteers. Sarah Barakat, 21, an architecture student overseeing the vegetables, said that she, too, planned to leave Lebanon for graduate studies.

Source: bd News24 August 27, 2020 18:33 UTC