Many residents in metro Detroit \u2014 home to the nation\u2019s largest Lebanese community \u2014 are mourning as the war between Israel and Hezbollah brings devastation to Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Since March, relentless fighting has left southern towns and villages in ruins. By May, at least 62,000 buildings<\/a> were destroyed, more than 1 million people were displaced, and over 4,000 <\/a>have been killed.<\/p>\n In Israel, four civilians have died and 32 soldiers have been killed in the conflict.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a shaky ceasefire now, but it\u2019s only days old, and Israeli forces still occupy parts of southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n For many in metro Detroit, the pain is personal.<\/p>\n What does it look like to be forced from home, only to return to rubble? How does all the violence and instability ricochet among friends and loved ones here in metro Detroit, where many have family and community ties to Lebanon?<\/p>\n Mirvet Makki is the owner of Divine Dine Detroit, a catering business in Dearborn. She immigrated to Michigan from Lebanon in 1990, and she\u2019s been using earnings from her business to make donations to folks in Lebanon. She says she\u2019s constantly reflecting on the devastation in the country where she was born.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSeeing the rubble on the side of the road, I was thinking to myself,\u00a0\u2018whose son was lost here, whose father was here, whose child died on this road?\u2019\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n Makki joined host Robyn Vincent on The Metro to reflect on the heartbreak unfolding in Lebanon and how it reverberates through metro\u202fDetroit\u2019s Lebanese community.<\/p>\n Hear the full conversation using the media player above.<\/p>\n Listen to The Metro weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon ET on 101.9 FM and streaming on-demand. Never miss an episode \u2014 subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, or NPR<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many residents in metro Detroit \u2014 home to the nation\u2019s largest Lebanese community \u2014 are mourning as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[16679,9333,53862,5143,37,93,36],"class_list":["post-176214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-arab-americans","tag-dearborn","tag-devastation","tag-diaspora","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116807313753375589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}