Yara El Murr

Yara El Murr is a contributing journalist at The Public Source.

First responders search the ruins of a collapsed building at night.

Three Years After the Beirut Explosion: Where Does Lebanon’s Disaster Management Stand?

Yara El Murr

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 woman with long black wavy hair holds a cluster of stinging nettle leaves in her hand while she picks more. She is bending next to a large bluish kale plant on her right

Plantcestral Remedies for Perennial Ailments

Chris Trinh

Christina Cavalcanti

Yara El Murr

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 wide shot showing a young woman dressed in black making her way through a foraging trail down a rocky path. Trees line up the top of the hill and stand tall against a cloudy blue sky.

Returning to the Land and Our Oral Plantcestral History

Yara El Murr

Christina Cavalcanti

Composite of images taken of Lebanese passports and of the Beirut International Airport.

“Like a Prison”: Lebanon’s General Security Makes Passport Renewal a Nightmare

Yara El Murr

Christina Cavalcanti

Layla Yammine

Composite of images provided by Zoukak of their performance of the Rave Empire in France.

Zoukak’s Political Theater: A Space for Collective Reflection Amid Crisis

Layla Yammine

Yara El Murr

Delivery driver on the go on a rainy night.

Always on the Move, Yet Trapped in Precarity: On the Buried Dreams of Gig Economy Drivers

Christina Cavalcanti

Yara El Murr

Composite of images taken at a hospital in Lebanon and of protests organized by Lebanese University students. Photos taken on October 19, 2021 and October 25, 2011, by Marwan Tahtah. (The Public Source)

Students or Workers? Lebanese University Medical Students on the Frontline of a Crumbling Healthcare System

Yara El Murr

Layla Yammine

With new appliances now unaffordable, repair shops for washing machines, stove tops, and fridges have become a common sight in the neighborhood. Nabaa, Lebanon. June 26, 2021. (Mohamad Cheblak/The Public Source)

Nabaa’s Changing Face: Repurposing and Refurbishing in Times of Crisis

Once thriving markets are now shuttered, storefronts are turned into repair shops, daily life is being reworked.

The Dikkenneh Co-op, Basta al-Tahta. Beirut, Lebanon. April 16, 2021. (Rita Kabalan/The Public Source)

“We All Benefit”: On the Little Dikkeneh Co-op That Could

Yara El Murr

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