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An older woman dressed in black sits beside a bed inside a tent-like shelter, holding a folded blanket. A small plate of fruit and a book rest on the bed next to her.

“They’re Trying to Take Paradise From Us”

Photographs by

Fatima Joumaa

An arched stone bridge crosses the Beirut River; mountains are visible in the background. Three people are walking by the river.

“We Used to Dunk Our Feet In”: How Beirut Let its River Waste Away

By

Dana Hourany

A woman holds a painting of former political prisoner Georges Abdallah outside of the Rafik Hariri Airport in Beirut, Lebanon.

“Changing the Defenders, Not the Cause”: Inside the Revolutionary Path of Masar Badil

By

Julia Choucair Vizoso Farah-Silvana Kanaan

A black-and-white photograph of a group of men gathered outside the arched entrance of al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Inside the Narrative War: Mohammed el-Kurd’s “Plea Against Pleas”

By

Tracy J. Jawad

Reporter stands next to blast-damaged car

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Dispatches From the Lebanese Front

Edited by

Lara Bitar Christina Cavalcanti Tracy J. Jawad Livia Bergmeijer Sintia Issa Farah-Silvana Kanaan

“We’re Broken”: A Testimony of Displacement From Alma al-Shaab

By

Tracy J. Jawad

The photo shows several damaged tombstones in Beirut's Bachoura Cemetery.

Can the Dead Rest? Israeli Strike on Bachoura Damages Beirut’s Historic Cemetery

By

Tracy J. Jawad

Two displaced women sit with their cat on the streets of Beirut.

“I Don’t Have a House Here and I Don’t Have a House There”: Syrians Face Double Displacement

By

Tracy J. Jawad