More Than A Bunch of Bricks | Riwa Alameh | TEDxInternationalCollegeBeirut

[Music] It's a phrase you hear everywhere in Lebanon. Whether you're in the city or the suburbs, no matter what happens, people will tell you. But for me, in that moment, health wasn't the most important thing.Maybe that's why I felt guilty for what I was feeling. Society teaches us that objects don't matter. And yes, I might live in a different house now, but that house, my home, will never come back.Everyone had told me, it's just a house. It's just a bunch of bricks and cement. But was my house really ju ...