Sarah Copland

Sarah Copland is a United Nations staffer, former Beirut resident and Isaac Oehlers' mother. Sarah sat down with our Editor-in-Chief Hannah Diviney to discuss the explosion, the aftermath and her fight for justice for Isaac.

Mother, expat, feminist and wanna-be writer are some of the ways I would describe myself. I have worked for the United Nations for the last five years, most recently in Beirut where I worked on advancing gender equality and women’s rights in the Arab region. On the 4th of August 2020, my two year old son Isaac was killed in the Beirut explosion, the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history. I was pregnant at the time and have since returned to Australia with my husband, where I gave birth to my second son Ethan. This piece was originally published here.