The article tells the story of Lebanese students, particularly Fouad Abou Mrad, whose lives have been dramatically affected by the recent conflict in Lebanon. Returning home to find it destroyed, Abou Mrad recalls the traumatic experience and the challenge of continuing his education amid ongoing instability. With around half of Lebanon's 1.25 million students displaced due to bombardment, many young people face heightened anxiety and fear as they attempt to resume their studies and exams following a brief ceasefire that offered little respite from the psychological damage inflicted by war.
Seeing the place that I grew up in in that state was just shocking. I've never experienced that before in my life. It was straight out of [a] horror film, he told Al Jazeera, adding that his home smelled like dead bodies.
The learning and futures of Lebanese students had been disrupted by Israel's bombardment of Lebanon with nearly half of the country's 1.25 million students displaced, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Education.
A temporary ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah group was implemented on November 27 but only after months of bombings that left a psychological toll on young people like Abou Mrad.
He (Abou Mrad) and other students are now trying to settle back into a regular routine and focus on passing their exams.
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