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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

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

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.

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

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 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

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

Bank in Beirut protected by two private security guards and a metal wall.

While We Try to Survive Its Last Scheme, Lebanon's Banking Sector Plots Another Grand Theft

Karim Merhej

Yazan Al-Saadi

Children study in the rubble of their school that was destroyed by the violent war in the city of Taiz, Yemen. December 27, 2018. (Akram Alrasny/Shutterstock)

Forgotten War, Abandoned Refugees: The Plight of Yemenis in Lebanon

Ali Al-Dailami

عناصر من أمن الدولة يديرون السير قرب محطة محروقات في الجديدة، تزامنا مع ممارسات احتكارية من قبل المحطات وشركات الاستيراد.

كارتيلات، ومصارف، وسيارات: نهج سياسي يدهس النقل العامّ في لبنان منذ التسعينات

Layla Yammine

Karim Merhej