The (Dis)order Report

On the Order of Disorder in Lebanon.

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

A migrant worker picks okra from the planters along the Burjawi staircase in Nasra, Achrafieh. Beirut, Lebanon. 2018. (Dana Mazraani/Beirut Urban Lab)

Why Socio-Spatial Practices Matter to Urban Recovery

Dana Mazraani

Luna Dayekh

Mona Harb

A volunteer health worker disinfects a building in Ras Beirut. Beirut, Lebanon. March 20, 2020. (Hussein Baydoun/The Public Source)

Too Little Too Late: A Timeline of Lebanon’s Response to COVID-19

Hussein Mehdy

An old building stands before the ruins, aid and construction workers nearby. Karantina, Beirut. September 23, 2020. (Rita Kabalan/The Public Source)

Post-Disaster Karantina: Towards a People-Centered Heritage-Led Recovery

Howayda Al-Harithy

Batoul Yassine

A rescue worker stands by the Beirut Port grain silo during a search operation. Beirut, Lebanon. August 6, 2020. (Zein Jaafar/The Public Source)

A Pit(i)less Blame Game at the Beirut Port of Institutional Corruption

Rohan Advani

Beirut, Lebanon. August 31, 2020. (Lynn Chaya/The Public Source)

Surviving Karantina: The Long Way Home

Zahra Hankir

A woman donning a mask makes her way through a secondhand market in Tripoli near Nahr Abu Ali. Tripoli, Lebanon. June 13, 2020. (Natheer Halawani/The Public Source)

Quarantine: New Bodies in Familiar Places

Jana Nakhal

Man wearing black standing in front of his farm in the border town of Dhayra, South Lebanon. He is surrounded by burnt trees and grass impacted by Israel's White Phosphorus attacks.

In South Lebanon, Cultivating Resistance Against Israel’s “Substance from Hell”

Dana Hourany

Yara El Murr

A man in a cap with a white mustache points a thick black hose into a plastic grey water container, and water flows from the hose into the container. There are other such containers around him.

Riding with the Black Hose Brigade: The Truckers Who Bring You Water When the Government Fails

Christina Cavalcanti

Dana Hourany