Beirut in stained glass: Rebuilding a broken city
Over a 30-year career, Maya Husseini created stained-glass windows in dozens of buildings across her city and abroad. Then the 2020 explosion destroyed almost everything.
After a 30-year career, Maya Husseini had planned to retire. She was Lebanon’s first female master glazier, she’d worked through civil wars and overcome sexism to create masterful stained-glass windows in churches and buildings across her city and abroad. Then the 2020 explosion in the Beirut port shattered almost everything. Retirement plans were shelved and Maya got back to work, bringing together a team of women to rebuild, and restore her beautiful creations.
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Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producers: Olivia Lynch-Kelly and Helen Fitzhenry
Interpreter: Olivier Weber
Voice-over: Mounira Chaieb
The clip of the explosion is courtesy of the Associated Press and Alaa.H Saad.
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(Photo: Maya Husseini working on one of her stained-glass windows. Credit: Courtesy of Maya Husseini)
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