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No More Tears — My Lebanon War Diary And The Routine Of Tragedy

Photo of birds flying away as smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut, on Oct. 22.
Birds fly as smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut, on Oct. 22. Marwan Naamani/dpa/ZUMA

In more than a year since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalated, news of bombing has become a habit in Lebanon. In an essay for the Beirut-based independent media Daraj, Lebanese journalist Pascale Sawma discusses how war has become “normal” — and what that means for her and her work.

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Arafat To Nasrallah: The 1982 Lebanon History Lesson That Israel Forgot Again

The memorial for the Shatila masacre that Christian militias of the Phalangists perpetrated during the Lebanese civil war in 1982.
Memorial in Beirut, Lebanon, commemorating the Shatila massacre of 1982. David Allignon/ZUMA

Israel is on the hunt in Lebanon one more time, with apparent early successes. But it has again ignored the fact that something always rises from the ashes.

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