A live listening piece by the Lebanese author, actress and director Chrystèle Khodr.

Almost exactly one year after the catastrophe of the Beirut port on August 4, 2020, Chrystèle Khodr recorded the text for this listening piece in Beirut, for which she follows up the legend of the «Switzerland of the Orient». Because that is how Lebanon was called in the 1950s and 1960s. However, according to Chrystèle Khodr, the strange thing is that many people in Lebanon still rave about this «Switzerland of the Orient», which – despite banking secrecy – never really existed