Contributors

Abbas Fakih is a photojournalist from Nabatieh, South Lebanon. He has worked with both international and Arab news agencies and is currently a contributing producer and photographer at the Legal Agenda.

Ahmad Baydoun is an OSINT researcher and architect whose work examines how natural and built landscapes are manipulated in warfare, with a focus on documenting violence, environmental harm, and spatial destruction. He works with geolocation, chronolocation, satellite imagery analysis, data visualization, and pattern recognition to reconstruct incidents from minimal or degraded evidence.

Ahmad Elamine is a Lebanese-British doctor working in Psychiatry in London.

Ali Al-Dailami is a researcher and program manager at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, where he has coordinated and contributed to Yemen at the UN and the Yemen Review publications for the last three years.

Amelia Hankins is a Beirut-based writer and editor. Her recent work has appeared in L’Orient Today and the Markaz Review. She is currently working on a project tracing her family’s experience during the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon.

Andres Barkil-Oteo is a psychiatrist with extensive experience working in conflict settings. He recently moved to Beirut to join the psychiatry department at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. He tweets @andre06511.

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Asem Alnabih is an engineer and PhD researcher based in Gaza City. He previously served as spokesperson and member of the emergency committee at the Gaza Municipality, and he is currently a correspondent for Al-Araby TV in Gaza.

Banchi Yimer is a former domestic worker who lived in Lebanon for nearly a decade. Alongside fellow Ethiopian migrant workers, she founded Engna Legna ("Us for Ourselves"), a community-based organization working on migrant domestic workers’ issues and women’s issues in Lebanon and Ethiopia.

Basyma Saad is a contributing editor at The Public Source.

Batul Samra is a photographer from South Lebanon, capturing the deep connection between people and their land. Her work highlights daily life and traditions in the South as acts of resilience in the face of ongoing threats.

Camilla Royle is an environmental geography writer and teacher.

Chris Trinh is a Vietnamese-American photojournalist and multimedia reporter based in Beirut, Lebanon. 

Dana Hourany is a journalist at The Public Source.

Daniel Lobato Bellido is a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. For ten years he has been in charge of organizing political brigades of activists to Palestine to learn more about the situation on the ground and support Palestinian grassroots organizations.

Fatima Joumaa is a Lebanese photographer and filmmaker.

Ghadir Hamadi is a journalist and founder of Sawab, a youth-led fact-checking initiative combating fake news and hate speech in Lebanon. She currently works at L’Orient Today in Beirut. Find her on X. 

Ghassan Mogharbel is a Beirut-based writer focusing on media narratives, protest movements, and politics in Lebanon. He studied law at La Sagesse University and previously worked as a media monitor at the Lebanese Centre for Human Rights.

Gioia Sawaya is an architect and researcher from Lebanon. Her research methodology focuses on the role of theory in relation to the design process, examining the possibilities that challenge the rethinking of architecture in a novel way. In January 2022, she designed a proposal on how to prevent a new disaster at the Beirut port grain silos, and how to recycle the fermenting grain into a bio-composite material that could become a new construction material.

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist, political analyst, and founder of the Beirut Report.

Hassan Shehadi is a southerner and a university professor in photography, graphic design, and visual communication arts, with interests in artistic documentation and conceptual visual storytelling.  

Hisham Rifai is a graphic artist and interior architect currently based in Beirut.

Hussein Mehdy is a freelance journalist and researcher reporting on education, youth, human rights, and corruption. His research focuses on governance, the right to information, personal data protection, among other issues.

Jasbir K. Puar is Distinguished Professor of Arts at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of two award-winning books: The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). 

Julia Choucair Vizoso is a senior fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative where she runs the food sovereignty research agenda. She is a contributing writer and editor at The Public Source.

Karim al-Amine is a trainee journalist at Al-Akhbar newspaper.

Khalil Kawtharany is a journalist and editor of the opinion section at Al-Akhbar newspaper.

Lara Bitar is the editor in chief of The Public Source.

Layla Yammine is a journalist at The Public Source.

Léa Yammine is deputy director at Lebanon Support, where she coordinates the interpretation of the center’s research, programs, and activities into various formats from an interdisciplinary perspective. She is also involved in the center’s networking, incubation, and mentoring efforts. Her main research and work areas are communication, visualization and mapping, civil society, and gender.

Lina Mounzer is a Lebanese writer and translator.

Luna Dayekh is a researcher at the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut. Her background is in political science, and she is currently assisting with observatory work on the post-blast response and Covid-19 mapping project.

Lynn Chaya is a Lebanese-Canadian photojournalist and activist based in Beirut. Her work focuses primarily on humanitarian and political issues. Follow her on Twitter: @lynnkchaya.

Mansour Aziz is the art director of The Public Source.

Marwan Bou Haidar is staff photojournalist at The Public Source.

Maysa Mustafa is a Palestinian journalist based in New York City.

Mohamad Cheblak is a contributing photographer with The Public Source.

Mona Fawaz is a Professor of Urban Studies and Policy and Research Director at the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut. She writes about urban history and historiography, social and spatial justice, informality and the law, property and space, as well as planning practice, theory and pedagogy. She researches, teaches, and advocates strategies for more inclusive cities.

Munira Khayyat teaches anthropology at the American University in Cairo. A Landscape of War is her first book.

Nadine N. Sayegh is a Palestinian multidisciplinary writer and researcher focusing on the Arab-speaking world. Her work spans gender, geopolitics, human security, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She holds an MA in Media and the Middle East from SOAS, London, and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toulouse (Jean-Jaurès), where her dissertation examined multiscalar gendered oppression in Palestine and Jordan. Her research and commentary have been featured in diverse scholarly and journalistic venues, with select works translated internationally.

Nay El Rahi is a Lebanese journalist, researcher, activist, and gender advocacy professional from Beirut, Lebanon.

Nisrine Chaer is a researcher and organizer based in Beirut.

NK is a Palestinian refugee.

The Palestinian Youth Movement is a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians dedicated to the liberation of their homeland and people.
 

Ramez Dagher is an MD and has been a political blogger since 2012.

Rana Sukarieh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut. Her research focuses on political and economic solidarity relations.

Rebecca Abby Whiting is a historian, editor and writer based in Beirut. She is a contributing editor at The Public Source. 

Reef H. Al-Amine is a writer and editor with a BA in English Literature from AUB. She has written short pieces about gender expression (Mangal Media, Frame.Life), reproductive justice (Kohl Journal), and Beirut (Rusted Radishes) and is currently interested in projects that center local wildlife conservation.

Richard Salame is a contributing investigative journalist at The Public Source.

Riyasa Ismail is a writer from southern Lebanon whose work explores memory, place, and identity.

Ruwan Teodros is an Ethiopian-Lebanese photographer based in Beirut and New York. 

Saseen Kawzally is the Arabic language editor of The Public Source.

Simon Assaf is a Lebanese revolutionary socialist based in London and a commissioning editor at The Public Source. He was one of the founders of Tajamou‘ Yasari and al-Muntada al-Ishtiraqi. 

Sirène Moukheiber is an Illustrator and comic artist. She previously worked as an illustrator and art director with AJ+ in Doha, Qatar, and is currently a visual content creator with WHRDMENA coalition.

Soha Mneimneh is an Urban Researcher at the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut. Her research focuses on housing finance, territoriality, real-estate developers’ building activity, housing struggles, and their intersection with sectarian and class divisions.

Tala Hassan is research coordinator at the Knowledge Workshop.

Tracy J. Jawad is an editorial assistant at The Public Source.

Wassila Abboud is a cultural worker and writer based between Amsterdam and Beirut.

Yasmine Khayyat is an assistant professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. Her forthcoming book titled “War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon” (Syracuse University Press) examines the figuration of the ruin as a site of resistance and potentiality in modern Lebanese novels, poetry, and sites of memory.

Zach Hussein is a Palestinian photographer based in New York City.

Zaynab Mayladan is a Lebanese independent journalist and media advisor covering conflict, displacement, and the human impact of war.

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her most recent collection, Louder than Hearts, won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares, World Literature Today, The Southeast Review, The Adroit Journal, Triquarterly, the Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Her poem “Maqam” won Poetry Magazine’s 2017 Frederick Bock Prize.

Amani Rammal is a researcher in archiving and oral history, holding a Master’s degree in Archival Science from the Lebanese University. She has over ten years of experience in oral history documentation and training researchers and activists in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. She is the founder of the archival initiative “Withaqiyyah.”

Public Works Studio is a multidisciplinary research and design studio founded in 2012 that engages critically with urban and public issues in Lebanon. 

Jana Nakhal is an independent researcher, urban planner, and feminist. Her research focuses on space, gender, women’s cooperatives and workplace discrimination against women in Lebanon.

Zahraa Lakis is an independent photographer working in visual storytelling and political content production in the West Asia region.

غابرييل توبينامبا محلّل نفسيّ وفيلسوف برازيليّ من ريو دي جانيرو، وهو عضو مؤسّس في المجموعة البحثيّة الفرعيّة للممارسة النظريّة. من أعماله: رغبة التحليل النفسيّ (The Desire of Psychoanalysis, 2021)، وهيغل، لاكان، جيجك (Hegel, Lacan, Zizek, 2013) مع يوان ياو.

Fátima Fouad el-Samman is a researcher and translator at The Public Source.

Laura Albast is a Palestinian journalist. She is the Audience Engagement Editor at The Public Source.

مؤيد أبو أمونة فنان بصري وصانع أفلام فلسطيني وُلِد في مدينة غزة، هُجِّرَت عائلته من قرية يبنا في قضاء الرملة عام ١٩٤٨.

Marwan Tahtah is a contributing photojournalist with The Public Source.

Wissam Saade is a Lecturer of political science and history at Saint Joseph University. His research interests focus on medieval and modern political thought and the social and intellectual history of modern revolutions.