مشاهد من الحرب بعدسة فاطمة جمعة

يوم ١٧ أيلول، عند منتصف الليل، من أمام مستشفى الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، يَدا الأمُّ تنتظران خبرًا يطمئنُها أنّ ابنها سيبصر!

عودة حمزة إلى الأرض، وعودة أم حمزة الى القرية
يوميات الحرب

رجل يبكي ركام بيته المدمّر جرّاء القصف الصهيوني المعادي على أحد المخيمات للاجئين الفلسطينيين جنوب لبنان. التقطت الصورة بين عامَي ١٩٨٢ و١٩٨٨. الجنوب، لبنان. (أرشيف المتحف الفلسطيني الرقمي)
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People were still missing under the rubble the day after Israel's airstrikes on a residential neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs. September 21, 2024. Beirut, Lebanon. (Marwan Bou Haidar/The Public Source)
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[Featured] The (Dis)order Report

A composite image of women riding a motorcycle through agricultural fields in Central Bekaa and a snowy mountain range. Photos taken by Marwan Tahtah in Saadnayel, Lebanon on April 14, 2023. (The Public Source)

Villa owners can afford the cost and space it takes to install good solar systems. Akkar, Lebanon. September 30, 2022. (Rita Kabalan/The Public Source)
Privatizing the Sun: The Dark Side of Lebanon’s “Solar Revolution”

Agricultural laborers work the field on amiri land, a type of state land that allows for communal use. Most amiri lands are in the Beqaa region, where three quarters of residents live off agricultural work. Beqaa, Lebanon. 2021. (Photo courtesy of Public Works Studio)
The Land We Stand to Lose to the Sovereign Fund

A child stands in a narrow opening between concrete blocks. The Lebanese army limits the passage of cars into a number of Palestinian camps through checkpoints and closes other entrances with concrete walls, leaving only pedestrian pathways. Burj al-Shemali camp, Tyre. January 21, 2017. (Nadia Ahmad/The Public Source)

The electricity sector has become an embodiment of corruption in Lebanon. Électricité du Liban, Mar Mikhael, Beirut. November 10, 2019. (Hoda Kerbage/The Public Source)
Anti-Corruption: A Neoliberal Strategy to Breathe New Life into Lebanon's Spoils-Sharing System?

Three protesters hold a sign in Riad al-Solh Square that reads, “burn their mansions." Beirut. Lebanon. October 18, 2019. (Mohamad Cheblak/The Public Source)
[Featured] The Long Read

A rare photograph from the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross (Dayr al-Salib), taken in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion, of two children clad in modest winter dress and bound to a radiator, their faces reflecting distress and dread. Dayr al-Qamar, Lebanon. 1982. (José Nicolas/Corbis via Getty Images)
(Im)Possibilities of Healing Within the Mental Health System

Sudanese children at morning football training on the sand, despite a raging sandstorm. March 29, 2018. (Mohammed Abdelmoneim Hashim Mohammed/Creative Commons)

A composite of Lebanese police guarding the Bank of Beirut during the "week of rage" anti-government protests in Hamra on January 14, 2020, (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source) and Greek police guarding the National Bank of Greece during anti-austerity protests on February 25, 2010. (Creative Commons)
What About the “Sovereign Wealth Fund”? Some Lessons From Greece

A composite of migrant domestic workers holding their employers' children and enjoying the view, and a woman chatting with a friend from the balcony of her employer's home. Photos taken by Matthew Cassel between March 31, 2010 and May 13, 2010 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Neoliberalism and Kafala

“Tomorrow: Lebanon Unites to Face Those Starving It.” Assafir, November 4, 1987.
Digging Through the Archives for the 1987 Strike That Braved the Barricades

Composite of images taken at archeological sites-turned-constructions sites around Beirut. Photos taken on June 26, 2012 and February 17, 2022, by Marwan Tahtah. (The Public Source)
[Featured] In the Interlude

Rianna Tassabehji makes her way amid rocky outcrops on a trail that twists at the bottom of a hill. Batloun, Lebanon. September 14, 2022. (Chris Trinh/The Public Source)
Returning to the Land and Our Oral Plantcestral History

A composite image of Khaled Al Mahmoud inspecting a frame amid colorful wooden hives with bees and flowers in the foreground in Mazra'at Jemjim, Lebanon. Photos taken on June 11, 2022 by Marwan Tahtah. (The Public Source)
Collective Beekeeping in South Lebanon

A composite image of Fodda El Youssef (left) and her mother Aziza Sattouf (right) manually sorting wheat to be sent to a mill in Saadnayel, Lebanon, against the backdrop of Seed in a Box's vegetable seedling greenhouse in Beddawi, Lebanon. Photos taken on May 10, 2022, and May 18, 2022 by Chris Trinh. (The Public Source)
From the Ground Up: Seed Saving and Food Sovereignty in Lebanon
[Featured] Chronicles of the Crisis

Months before he embarked on the "death boat," Hashem Methlej drew an ominous sketch of a boat sinking. Tripoli, Lebanon. October 28, 2022. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

A composite of a forged document claiming the successful incineration of the toxic waste, the Radhost motorship, and the toxic barrels. (Photos © ShipSpotting/Wolfgang Kramer & © Dr. Pierre Malychef from Lab of False Witnesses for Ecotoxicological Research and Communication)
The “Ecological Time Bombs” Unloaded at the Beirut Port Decades Ago

A composite of archival images from Assafir newspaper of the offices of Intra Investment Company and the opening of the Finance Bank, one of Intra Holdings' most secretive holding companies, on December 7, 1999. Mahfouz Sakina, Hassan Farran, Yacoub Al Sarraf, and Salah Harakat are seen cutting a cake. (The Public Source)

Composite of images taken at a protest organized by the Beirut Port Explosion Victims' Families and the Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities to demand justice for people killed and injured by the blast. Sylvana Lakkis, president of the union, is the center of the image. Photos taken on July 4, 2021, by Hussein Baydoun. (The Public Source)
“And What Would You Like Me to Do About It?”: How the Lebanese Government Disabled Hundreds of People — and Then Left Them to Pay for Its Crime
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Still from the documentary "Amussu" (2019), directed by Nadir Bouhmouch. It tells the story of the villagers of Imider in southeastern Morocco who "shut down a water pipeline to Africa's biggest silver mine to save their oasis ... [and later] sing while harvesting the fruits of their militancy." (Photo Credit: Mohamed Ed-Daoudy)
[From the Archive] Dispatches from the October Revolution

Protesters engage in a discussion during the early days of the October uprising in "The Egg," an iconic abandoned opera house in central Beirut. October 24, 2019. (Gloria Tawk/Fawra)

Young women in factory uniforms hold a banner that reads, “our identity is to die for our bread.” Date unknown. Source: Al-Anwar newspaper.
The Power of Withholding Labor: The General Strike as Cultural Work

A sanitation worker employed by Lebanese company Ramco pauses for a picture while working a shift at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. April 6, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Protesters rest beside graffiti depicting the hanging of an authority figure. Downtown Beirut, Lebanon. December 15, 2019. (Rita Kabalan/The Public Source)
Oligarchiyya, Lebanese Style (Part 2 of 2)

Lebanese expatriates in New York City express support for injured and killed anti-establishment protesters in their home country. November 19, 2019. (Ahmed Gaaber/The Public Source)