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On the Order of Disorder in Lebanon.

Beirut’s Blasted Neighborhoods: Between Recovery Efforts and Real Estate Interests

Mona Fawaz

Soha Mneimneh

Beirut’s Blasted Neighborhoods: Between Recovery Efforts and Real Estate Interests

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

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

A composite image of women riding a motorcycle through agricultural fields in Central Bekaa and a snowy mountain range.

Warm Winter Woes: How Global Warming is Affecting Local Agriculture and Food

Yara El Murr

Warm Winter Woes: How Global Warming is Affecting Local Agriculture and Food

Bruised fruits and kitchen utensils are laid around the green metal column of the Fiat bridge in Beirut.

Life on the Streets of Beirut

Real estate speculation, combined with the absence of state policies to ensure housing as a basic right, created housing precarity well before the economic crisis.

Life on the Streets of Beirut

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

Indefinitely Deferred: Dignified Retirement Inaccessible to Most

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two women in colorful long dresses, gloves, face-covering scarves, and hats look towards the camera as they stand in a lush field against a mountainous backdrop.

The Land We Stand to Lose to the Sovereign Fund

Public Works Studio

The Land We Stand to Lose to the Sovereign Fund

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

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

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

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

Supporters of the 2011 Syrian uprising, draped in the Syrian opposition flag, gather to commemorate its first anniversary, as members of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces watch in relaxed shield formation. Martyrs’ Square, Beirut, Lebanon. March 17, 2012. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Eleven Years On: Syrians in Lebanon and the Search for Political Agency

Yazan Al-Saadi

Eleven Years On: Syrians in Lebanon and the Search for Political Agency