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Memories To Dust: A Southern Lebanon “Buffer Zone” Made By Destroying Our Homes

Photo of a hand touching the casket carrying Haj Maryam Qashqash during her funeral procession: she and her ten year old niece were both killed on April 23rd by an Israeli rocket that targeted their family home in southern Lebanon.
The casket of Haj Maryam Qashqash who was killed with her ten year old niece on April 23, 2024, when an Israeli rocket targeted their family home in southern Lebanon. Daniel Carde/ZUMA Press Wire

We, the children of “front edge” villages, have seen thousands of homes disappear into rubble. Our loss is not limited to memories and dreams, but also to the stories of our villages.

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Netanyahu Is Killing Us To Set Us Free? Logic, Grief And Resistance In Beirut

​A picture of a family lies in the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli missiles in the town of Saida, Lebanon, where 45 people were killed and 70 others wounded, October 4, 2024.
A picture of a family lies in the rubble of a building destroyed last week by Israeli missiles in the town of Saida, Lebanon, where 45 people were killed and 70 wounded. Ximena Borrazas/SOPA Images via ZUMA

Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly urged the Lebanese to turn on Hezbollah, as he drops bombs that kill thousands of civilians. But every citizen knows what an occupier looks like.

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When A Subterranean Theater Emerges In Beirut

The past, revisited
The past, revisited Metro al-Madina Facebook page

BEIRUT — Located in the heart of Beirut’s vibrant Hamra Street, an area that served as a hub for intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s, Metro al-Madina is an independent theater company and cabaret. The theater was founded in 2012 by Hisham Jaber & co. from the rubble of an abandoned theater with aspirations of […]

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