Driven by despair, Lebanese pharmacist looks to life abroad

Driven by despair, Lebanese pharmacist looks to life abroad

Pharmacist Rita El Khoury speaks in the middle of her empty pharmacy after selling her stock in preparation for her move to France with her husband, in Ballouneh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. They are part of the latest wave of emigration in the small country’s tortured modern history, driven by financial ruin, collapsing institutions, hyperinflation and rapidly rising poverty. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)