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MIDDLE EAST EYE/4.20.24 — A small neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, also known as Saida, is a utopia when compared to the communities surrounding it...
SYRIA DIRECT/4.17.24 — For the seventh evening in a row, Abed and his brother George watched the sunset on Sunday from their small balcony in Burj Hammoud, a historically Armenian town just east of...
INKSTICK MEDIA/3.25.24 — Bashir*, a 28-year-old refugee, fled Syria to escape the civil war. In neighboring Lebanon, he tended to fields working as a farmhand. But after a recent altercation with his...
SYRIA DIRECT/3.6.24 — A thick blue cast engulfs 17-year-old Rabia al-Othman’s left arm. Medical tape stretches across his left cheek, holding together a row of freshly-stitched sutures. Rabia’s...
THE NEW ARAB/2.21.24 — On the evening of 14 February, an Israeli missile tore through Hussein Ahmad Berjawi’s home, reducing it to rubble and killing Hussein and six of his family members...
AL MONITOR/2.24 — Schools are back in session in Lebanon's southern city of Tyre
after a long holiday. This year, however, students are being joined by dozens of
families displaced by the fighting...
MIDDLE EAST EYE/2.6.24 — Lebanon’s southern border with Israel is a ticking time bomb as the clock counts down in the absence of a diplomatic solution. Fighting between the Lebanese group Hezbollah...
SYRIA DIRECT/2.9.24 — In Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, Abdullah’s phone rings off the hook. Dozens of callers ask about the whereabouts of his relative, Yassin al-Atar. His voice is hoarse, his...
SYRIA DIRECT/1.26.24 — The National School in Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre has been bustling since last October. Dozens of children play football in the courtyard and weave through the school’s...