{"id":2100,"date":"2020-08-06T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:35:53","slug":"dr-yaniv-voller-gives-expert-commentary-on-the-impact-of-the-explosion-in-beiruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/06\/dr-yaniv-voller-gives-expert-commentary-on-the-impact-of-the-explosion-in-beiruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Yaniv Voller gives expert commentary on the impact of the explosion in Beiruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">&#8220;It will take months for Lebanon to recover&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2595\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2595\/voller-yaniv\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Dr Yaniv Voller <\/span><\/a><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">has spoken with <\/span>KMTV_Kent\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">to explain the impact of the explosion in <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Beiruit<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, amid the problems <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Lebanon <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">has suffered from <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">COVID<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">-19.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Dr Voller, lecturer in the politics of the Middle East, says it will take months for Lebanon to recover from the devastating explosion which shook Beirut. The blast has killed at least 100 people and wounded thousands.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> Watch Dr Voller&#8217;s interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/video\/it-will-take-months-for-lebanon-to-recover-31961\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It will take months for Lebanon to recover&#8221; Dr Yaniv Voller has spoken with KMTV_Kent\u00a0to explain the impact of the explosion in Beiruit, amid the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/08\/06\/dr-yaniv-voller-gives-expert-commentary-on-the-impact-of-the-explosion-in-beiruit\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131004,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}