The Long Read

Essays, Reviews & Analysis

Illlustration of people trapped within structures.

“We Are Everywhere, But Invisible”: How One System Facilitates Sexualized Violence and Protects its Perpetrators

Christina Cavalcanti

A self-portrait of journalist Issam Abdallah in the foreground, carrying his DSLR camera and microphone, to the background of destroyed buildings. Clear winter day.

Israel Killed Issam Abdallah but Cannot Kill the Story

Christina Cavalcanti

A composite of two images: a woman in the foreground, and people standing at a railing in the background, looking outward. There is a mosque on the horizon.

Neoliberalism and Kafala

Sumayya Kassamali

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

Christina Cavalcanti

Yara El Murr

Beirut’s sea wall at the height of Lebanon’s “Golden Age.” May 1, 1965. (Indiana University Archives, Charles Cushman Collection)

Paradise Lost? The Myth of Lebanon’s Golden Era

Karim Merhej

A woman stands amid rubble, center frame. Around her are fully demolished and semi-demolished buildings. She is wearing a helmet and flak jacket. To her left is a graphic that reads: “Lucy Williamson | BBC Middle East Correspondent”

Israel’s Willing Propagandists: What the Media Won’t Tell You When It Embeds With the Military

Habib Battah

Christina Cavalcanti

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 close-up black and white photo of a wildflower in the hills of Palestine.

Searching for Palestine in Beirut

Sumayya Kassamali

صورة من مسيرة "المائة الألف" التي نظمتها الحركة الطلابية، كما شارك الفنانون والمفكرون وقطاعات أخرى من المجتمع البرازيلي في المظاهرة الاحتجاجية الشعبية ضد الدكتاتورية العسكرية. ريو دي جانير، البرازيل. ٢٦ حزيران، ١٩٦٨. (إيفاندر تيشيرا، أرشيف IMS)

”اليسار الصهيوني“ كقوّة مُضادّة للثورة: البرازيل نموذجًا

برونو هوبرمان

Fátima Fouad el-Samman

An old black and white photo showcasing a hillside with a castle perched atop.

Stolen By a Map: The Haunting History of Lebanon’s Lost Villages

Dana Hourany