Issue No. 16 | 2025

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

Julia Choucair Vizoso

Farah-Silvana Kanaan

Illustration of a grandmother relaxing in a chair, with a vibrant and floral background.

A Popular Front of Grandmothers

Golrokh Nafisi

A pair of hands holds a pouched sheep skin with a round piece of fresh white cheese inside.

From Mouneh to Takeout: How Beirut Ate My Teta’s Recipes

Layla Yammine

A collage of a young girl (Milad Daqqa) playfully standing by an iron-barred window with her father's handwritten notes reflecting on the glass.

“They Make Death, and I'm the Labor of Life”: Palestinian Prisoners’ Sperm Smuggling as an Affirmation of Life

Layal Ftouni

Children walk through the charred remains of what was once a school.

Textbook Genocide: Why Israel Bombs Schools

Jo Kelcey

A black and white photo of a group of people leaning against one another, asleep on the floor, in what looks like a basement.

The Same Defeats: On Half a Century of Growing up as a Child of the War

Lina Mounzer

مقاتلان من حزب الكتائب يتمترسون في بهو فنق الهوليداي إن. بيروت، لبنان. ١٩٧٦. (دون ماكولين، هاميلتنز)

البحث عن علي مينيوفيتش

محمد ناصر الدين

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”

Tracy J. Jawad

A black-and-white photo features a southern Vietnamese female guerrilla fighter pointing her rifle with determination, embodying the resilience of those who fought for their homeland.

Resistance or Death: The Struggle for Life Under Imperialism

Khalil Kawtharany

Karim al-Amine

Fátima Fouad el-Samman

A composite photo. A group of five men in suits are huddled together in the foreground deep in discussion. In the background is a hallway with stacks of loose papers, merged with a large poster that reads: "UNDP's Technical Support to the Ministry of Finance in Lebanon: Closing Event."

Inside Experts: What Happened When an Army of Consultants and Technocrats Tried To Fix Lebanon

Richard Salame