March 2022 Issue

Editorials

Let’s Talk About Funding Journalism

By

Lara Bitar

The (Dis)order Report

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

By

Yara El Murr Layla Yammine

Chronicles of the Crisis

A composite image of different National Social Security Fund (NSSF) offices.

The Full Story Behind the Looming Collapse of the National Social Security Fund

By

Karim Merhej Kareem Chehayeb

The Long Read

Front page of Assafir's November 4, 1987 issue, announcing the upcoming general strike.

Digging Through the Archives for the 1987 Strike That Braved the Barricades

By

Sintia Issa Karim Merhej

Composite of images taken at archeological sites-turned-constructions sites around Beirut

Searching for Lebanon’s Ancient Ruins Amid Capitalist Ruination

By

Habib Battah

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

By

Christina Cavalcanti Yara El Murr

PS Visuals

Al Sheikh_Hikayati Sharh La Yatoul

Beirut’s Feminist Library: A Home to Writings from the Struggle

By

Sintia Issa

الملحق

تركيب صور من فترة ازمة المحروقات في لبنان خلال صيف ٢٠٢١

كيف دُمِّر نظام النقل المُشترك في لبنان ولصالح من؟

بقلم

ليلى يمّين

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episode 1: the future is now

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Amy Chiniara

Script by

Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 2: the road not taken

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Amy Chiniara

Script by

Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 3: a spectre haunts

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 4: U R 🔥

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 5: slap on wrist

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 6: enter the void

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 7: labor power hour

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 8: why we fight

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 9: the ebony horse

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Amy Chiniara

Script by

Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 10: crossing the threshold

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 11: be right back

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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episode 12: things to come

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Amy Chiniara

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Yazan Al-Saadi

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