Seema Jilani

Seema Jilani is a pediatrician and humanitarian aid worker. Besides working in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Egypt, Bosnia, Nepal, and other areas of conflict, she has worked in Texas as a flight physician transporting critically ill children. She is also a Fulbright scholar, a Truman National Security Project fellow, and a Voice of Our Nations Arts Foundation fellow; her writing has appeared in The Guardian and The New York Times. (August 2020)

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A Doctor and Mother’s Account of the Devastating Blast in Beirut

“Negligence is too feeble a word to describe the government’s failure."

August 18, 2020

Beirut After the Blast

The blast has shredded the hopes of many here that their country could haul itself out of economic calamity, as angry demonstrators bore pictures of the dead to Martyrs’ Square, never more aptly named.

August 18, 2020

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