Annia Ciezadlo

Annia Ciezadlo is the investigations editor at The Public Source.

Illlustration of people trapped within structures.

“We Are Everywhere, But Invisible”: How One System Facilitates Sexualized Violence and Protects its Perpetrators

Christina Cavalcanti

A self-portrait of journalist Issam Abdallah in the foreground, carrying his DSLR camera and microphone, to the background of destroyed buildings. Clear winter day.

Israel Killed Issam Abdallah but Cannot Kill the Story

Christina Cavalcanti

Kids playing football on the sand in the middle of a sandstorm that colors the entire photo golden-yellow.

Lebanon, Radical Hope, and the Natural Economy in the Age of Climate Breakdown

Simon Assaf

شباب يمضون الوقت قرب البحر في منطقة الميناء. طرابلس، لبنان. 28 تِشْرين الأَوَّل ٢٠٢٢. (مروان طحطح، مصدر عام)

حصار في عُرض البحر

Yara El Murr

A composite of a senior woman protesting during the October 2019 uprising in the foreground against an old Mar Mkhayel barber shop in the background.

Indefinitely Deferred: Dignified Retirement Inaccessible to Most

Layla Yammine

A composite of two images: a girl covering her eyes and looking away with a shy smile on her face in the foreground, with a classroom in the background.

Public Education: Thousands of Children Left Behind at the Start of the School Year

Layla Yammine

Christina Cavalcanti

Two rows of solar panels installed on land surrounding villa that oversees a village.

Privatizing the Sun: The Dark Side of Lebanon’s “Solar Revolution”

Julia Choucair Vizoso

Yara El Murr

A composite image of hands cupping grains of wheat against the backdrop of a mill worker loading bags of flour onto a truck in Beirut, Lebanon.

Grain of Hope and Loaf of Neglect: Lebanon’s Renewed Bread Crisis

Christina Cavalcanti

Health care workers take a break outside the Rafik Hariri University Hospital. Beirut, Lebanon. April 17, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Costly and Unsustainable: Where Lebanon’s COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Went Wrong

Yara El Murr

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

Karim Merhej

Kareem Chehayeb

Christina Cavalcanti

Image overlay of a shopper carrying grocery bags over a deserted city street at night. Beirut, Lebanon. 2021. (The Public Source)

“We Didn’t Even Try”: How Lebanon's Chaotic COVID-19 Strategy Let Thousands Die

Yara El Murr

Map of Nour Square, at approximately 9:50 p.m. on the evening of January 27, when security forces fired live ammunition at protesters, showing locations of officers, television crew, a live streamer, and where eyewitnesses believe Omar was shot.

The Killing of Omar Tayba: A Visual Investigation of a Protester’s Death in Tripoli

Kareem Chehayeb