Rolling updates on Beirut, a city and a tech community devastated
9:23am PDT - August 5th, 2020 beirut explosion today - TechCrunchIt was only relatively recently, in October 2018, that TechCrunch held Startup Battlefield MENA to unpack startups in the Middle East and North Africa. When TechCrunch went looking for a city in the region to host the event in, it quickly became clear that Be…