Soaring amid strikes

A Middle East Airlines airplane flying over Beirut as smoke rises from Dahiyeh, in Beirut. — AP

AFTER narrowly escaping Israeli air strikes, Lebanese mother Tanaz Agha shared a picture taken from her plane window as she flew out of Beirut.

“Proud to be a Lebanese who can travel on my national airline in a time of war,” the 46-year-old says she told her friends on social media.