Fortress Beirut
August 19
The new U.S. embassy in Lebanon is one hundred thousand tons of diplomacy.
Belén Fernández is an opinion columnist for Al Jazeera and the author most recently of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, and Current Affairs, among other outlets.