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تبدو أضرحة القبور كما شجر الزيتون، مغروسة في تراب مقبرة الشهداء. مخيم برج البراجنة، لبنان. ٤ شباط، ٢٠٢٤. (حَنين عامل، مصدر عام)

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Illlustration of people trapped within structures.

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

By

Christina Cavalcanti

A young man drives a car loaded with his belongings past a park.

Samidoun: Lessons From the Civil Resistance to the 2006 War

By

Simon Assaf

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

By

Christina Cavalcanti

A black and white photograph showing two children fettered to a radiator at the psychiatric hospital of Deir El-Salib in Deir El-Qamar, Lebanon.

(Im)Possibilities of Healing Within the Mental Health System

By

Fátima Fouad el-Samman

Kids playing football on the sand in the middle of a sandstorm that colors the entire photo golden-yellow.

Lebanon, Radical Hope, and the Natural Economy in the Age of Climate Breakdown

By

Simon Assaf

A composite of Greek police guarding the National Bank of Greece in the foreground, with Lebanese police guarding the Bank of Beirut in the background.

What About the “Sovereign Wealth Fund”? Some Lessons From Greece

By

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

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

By

Sumayya Kassamali

Landscape of Dhaira, Lebanon.

Seasons of Life and War in South Lebanon: An Interview on Ecologies of Resistance

By

Sintia Issa

Tyre sea by night

Surrounding Sur: Liberation Day Poetics

By

Yasmine Khayyat

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