And Then Night Falls...

العربية: ليلٌ فوق ليلٍ

The (Dis)order Report

Public Services & Infrastructure

Photographs by

Marwan Tahtah

Published on 1 September 2021

Only the vendor of the brightly colored balloons makes the corniche of Ein el-Mreisseh recognizable.

Beirut in darkness; a dark building. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Beirut in darkness; a lit up window. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Beirut in darkness; glow-in-the-dark balloons. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Beirut in darkness; two people smoke an arguileh in the dark. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Beirut in darkness; a motorcycle lights up the street. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Beirut in darkness; a car's tail lights light up the street. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Beirut in darkness; a generator's switch/circuit board. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Électricité du Liban (EDL), Lebanon's main electricity provider, in complete darkness. Beirut, Lebanon. August 28, 2020. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)

Marwan Tahtah

Marwan Tahtah is a contributing photojournalist with The Public Source.

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