Lebanon’s Protracted Temporality: War, Recovery, and the Reproduction of Abandonment
Over the past two months, as Lebanon once again came under Israeli attack, it felt as if time...
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Threads of Metal and Silk: From Remhala to the South
I speak in my name and dare I speak in the name of millions of Lebanese who were...
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What It Means to End: Through the Eyes of Tyre’s Fishermen
Sitting on the concrete floor of the port, the fishermen each had a big wooden basket in front...
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The Pain of Our People is Not Your Cashcow: On Photojournalism and the Exploitation of Suffering in Conflicts
The pain that the people of Palestine and Lebanon have endured in the past three years is far...
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Holding Olives: Preserving Culture in Times of War
Holding Olives: Preserving Culture in Times of War Artists Document Land Sovereignty in South Lebanon Granddaughter of the...
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My Open Letter To Heba M.: On Arab Women and Hunger Strikes
Heba, We’ve never met. And, it must be quite odd for a stranger, a writer, to write you...
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Reflections on Feminism and Palestine
I have been wanting to write about feminism and Palestine since the beginning of the genocidal war in...
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For the Syrian Perspective, Look No Farther than Syrians
In May 2025, two major global news outlets contacted me to see if I was available for a...
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“Crack Your Windows” and Other Drugs: How Lebanon Outsourced Survival to Its People
As Israeli warplanes once again blacken Beirut’s skies and southern villages empty on the eve of sacred holidays,...
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The Dual Violence Against Lebanon: A Quiet Invasion and a Loud Aggression
The Ailanthus tree, an invasive species, spreads quietly and persistently—colonizing the land, choking out native ecosystems, and disrupting...
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The Occupation of Feeling: Grief, Numbness, and the War That Lingers Within
The past year and a half has carved itself into an irreversible chapter of history. There is a...
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A Letter from a “Safe Place”
A hand reaches through the broken glass of a shattered window in Tyre, South Lebanon, 2024. Photo by...
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Navigating Netflix During Wartime
Amid the ongoing war in Lebanon, platforms like Netflix offer moments of escapism for those staying home, hoping...
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What Makes One a Human? Reflections on the Dehumanization of the People of Palestine and Lebanon
“What makes one a human?” is a question I have been asking myself since October 7, 2023. Biology...
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Love Till Death
Editor’s note: This piece is an excerpt from “Legacies in Blood,” a book by Omar and Hala Saleh,...
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The Death of Meaning: How Language Betrays Palestine and Lebanon
Foreword: At this point in time, I trust everyone stumbling across this piece is well-aware of the 76...
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Unprepared and Unsupported: Lebanon’s Migrant Workers Amid Surging Israeli Attacks
October 2024 — Migrant workers who fled Israeli bombardment at a shelter in Hazmieh, Lebanon. Photo courtesy of...
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