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We are looking for rigorous, well-sourced work — journalistic, historical, or investigative — that is grounded in anti-imperialist and anti-colonial commitments on Lebanon and the region. We are also interested in photo essays, testimonies, and interviews.
ALT Image: Marwan Bou Haidar/The Public Source CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Public Source invites writers from Lebanon, Palestine, and across the Global South to submit pitches and full-length drafts, in English or Arabic on the latest escalation of the ongoing imperial war on our region. thepublicsource.org/write
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Etel Adnan (1925-2021), lesbian poet, storyteller, and painter died at the age of 96 in Paris, concluding a rich life attuned to the beauty of nature, engaged in struggle at home and in the heart of empire. She leaves us with an artistic and intellectual legacy spanning a century
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Before the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, another “poison ship” brought a deadly cargo to Beirut:
2,400 tons of illegal toxic waste from Italy...
... In exchange for $22 million.
⬇️ Watch "Merchants of Death" to learn more ⬇️
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As Lebanon plunges into the abyss, photos of the glitzy pre-war Lebanon (particularly Beirut) are routinely shared on social media. Many are reminiscing a lost 'Golden Age,' an innocent bygone era of prosperity.
St. George Hotel in 1965 (Charles Cushman Collection: Indiana Uni.)
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On Friday, March 31, the Cybercrime Bureau, on behalf of the Lebanese Forces, summoned our editor-in-chief, Lara Bitar, to appear for interrogation.
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👋🏽 Hello new followers! Welcome to The Public Source, a Beirut-based independent journalism outlet run by an all-women team that's dedicated to in-depth & investigative reporting in the public interest.
Read some of the award-winning reporting we've produced 🧵⬇️
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Lebanon's famed golden era was glamor and glitz.
@karim_merhej asks, for whom?
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Israel's war on Lebanon is drastically escalating. The Public Source is halting its signature long-form journalism to bring you dispatches from the Lebanese front.
On this live page you can find commentary, analysis, and reports on the war and the resistance against it.
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#Lebanon #Gaza #Hezbollah
#بيروت
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The Public Source is a Beirut-based independent media organization.
Launching today with "Dispatches from the October Revolution"
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Lebanon's "solar revolution" has a dark side.
This revolution is anything but. It's a hyper-individualized, privatized shopping spree that leaves behind anyone who cannot afford it, and creates a looming waste crisis.
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For those of you who missed it, read and share the article that pissed them off:
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Just hours before a highly anticipated, but not yet finalized, ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel, Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of strikes in Beirut and its southern suburbs.
A residential building in the densely populated district of Noueiri, Basta, was struck without prior notice, killing seven people and injuring 37, according to the Ministry of Public Health. The attack completely leveled the four-storey building, which was primarily housing the displaced, according to the National News Agency. This is the eighth attack on Beirut proper and the second attack on Basta in three days.
Shortly after the strike on central Beirut, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted 20 forced displacement notices on X for Hadath (3), Haret Hreik (10), Borj al-Barajneh (2), and Ghobeiry (5), marking the largest such warning issued by the Israeli military.
Around 30 minutes after the evacuation warnings were posted, Israeli occupation forces proceeded to carpet-bomb Dahieh.
Photos by Marwan Bou Haidar.
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Can Lebanon’s seniors retire with dignity? The short answer is no.
The longer answer in "Indefinitely Deferred: Dignified Retirement Inaccessible to Most" by journalist Layla Yammine.
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[The Day That Never Ended] "And What Would You Like Me to Do About It?”: How the Lebanese Government Disabled Hundreds of People — Then Left Them to Pay for Its Crime | An investigative feature by @karim_merhej, @chehayebk & @cavalcantich, Edited by @annia
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[PSA] Forest fires broke out earlier today in al-Qoubaiyat, north Lebanon, and continue to spread, seemingly inching toward residential areas. In a widely circulated video, people can be seen trying to flee.
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As most of you are aware, the Cybercrime Bureau summoned us for interrogation over an investigative feature we published.
We refuse to submit to this illegal interrogation, so we need you to join us in solidarity tomorrow, April 6 @ 10 am, Blvd Camille Chamoun (facing Wesley's).
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In downtown Beirut, people are stopping at different locations of the city-wide crime scene to mourn the victims of August 4, crying out their names on the spots where they were killed.
Here, they honor Houssam Al-Batal.
#BeirutExplosion
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An Ethiopian woman was dismembered and yesterday some of her remains were found in a suitcase abandoned on a street in Beirut.
This horrific crime is but the latest targeting migrant domestic workers in Lebanon who are subjected to the violent whims of their sponsor-employers.
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[Dispatches from the Lebanese Front] Over the past month, Israeli officials have repeatedly expressed their intention to reoccupy south Lebanon. And now, as a ground incursion seems imminent, we heed Mahdi Amel's 1982 warning against acquiescence and pessimism of the intellect and will.
Read Mahdi Amel’s timely “The Path of Revolution in Lebanon is Our Universe”, translated by Ahmad Elamine (@ahelamine).
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#الاجتياح_البري #جنوب_لبنان
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Exactly one year ago, at 6:07 pm, a corrupt, criminal, and negligent ruling class caused a devastating explosion at the Beirut Port.
In rage, in honor, and in remembrance of every person lost to their loved ones.
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To face Lebanon's crumbling economy, some are attempting to revive principles of solidarity economy. What does that mean?
Ahead of Int' Co-op Day, meet the dikkeneh co-op that's putting these principles to practice.
Story by Yara El Murr out tomorrow.
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The dust has not even settled on the #Beirut_Explosion, yet Lebanon's political establishment is only interested in evading accountability. Out of respect for the victims, The Public Source is committed more than ever to exposing this & other crimes. Leak! thepublicsource.org/tip
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By conceiving mental health as a human rights issue and abiding by global humanitarianism, Lebanon's national strategy reproduces a political economy around mental health defined by transience and instability and shaped by the shifting agendas of donors.
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Journalist Yara El Murr (@yaralmurr) has been named Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year 2023 at the @FPALondon Media Awards for her work with The Public Source.
She dedicated her award to the courageous Palestinian journalists in Gaza and spoke out bravely and beautifully against Israel's deliberate killing of these journalists.
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++ WINNER Thomson Foundation Young Journalist - FPA AWARDS 23 ++
Congratulations to Yara El Murr @yaralmurr winner of the Thomson Foundation's 2023 Young Journalist Award at this year #FPAawards23 for her outstanding work tinyurl.com/yara-elmurr
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In an interview with @AUBLibraries, historian Salman Abu Sitta (@salman_sitta) recalls how, at age 10, after watching Z^onists ethnically cleanse his village of Al Ma’in during the Nakba, he vowed to dedicate his life to creating an archive of each and every Palestinian village.
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Yet, the reality couldn't be farther from the truth.
Half of the population lived in conditions of destitution, poverty or near-poverty. Workers' exploitation was rife. Child labor was prevalent.
Children in Akkar in 1967 (Courtesy of @booklebanon)
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Without disability justice, it’s still August 4, four years on.
Survivors with injuries and disabilities from the Beirut blast continue to bear the cost of medical care alone, despite government promises—a stark reminder of the government’s neglect: thepublicsource.org/august4-…
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Over the past few days, we've been watching in horror as Israel wages an extermination campaign in Gaza.
In solidarity with the struggle for liberation, The Public Source is opening its pages to unedited interventions by Palestinians in historic Palestine and in the shatat.
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Fighting corruption is all the rage in Lebanon these days, but what are the origins of the anti-corruption discourse & why is the political class seemingly leading the anti-corruption battle agst itself?
A (Dis)order Report, by Karim Merhej & Sintia Issa.
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The families of the victims of the Beirut Port explosion are holding a sit-in at the Palace of Justice to condemn attempts to unseat Judge Tarek Bitar.
Ibrahim Hoteit, spokesperson for the families, tells The Public Source they will persist until the truth is revealed.
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[Breaking] Two-time former PM Najib Mikati — time and again embroiled in corruption scandals — formed a government tasked with reforming Lebanon's corrupt political and economic system.
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By the time the economy collapsed in 2019, 1 in 4 families in Lebanon had a full-time, live-in migrant domestic worker. An astonishing number – yet one we take for granted.
What if Kafala is not just one more of Lebanon’s many problems, but a pillar of its society and economy?
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The Public Source condemns the arrest and illegal detention of Beirut-based journalist Nada Homsi.
We are alarmed by the growing number of attacks on journalists and activists in Lebanon and join our colleagues' call for her immediate release.
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[Photo of the Day] "Open the Borders": Protesters at the EU headquarters in Beirut condemn the use of refugees as political paws.
One organizer told The Public Source, "We don't want the [crisis at the Belarus-Poland border] to be portrayed as a purely humanitarian issue."
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Protests in solidarity with the Palestinian people are taking place around the world today on #NakbaDay, including in Lebanon.
In the southern town of Abbasiyeh, youth scaled the border wall to hang a Palestinian flag on the fence. Kareem Chehayeb/The Public Source | @chehayebk
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[Photo of the Day] Protesters storm the building where Interior Minister Mohammad Fahmy resides over his refusal to lift the immunity of Major-General Abbas Ibrahim, as requested by the lead investigator into the #BeirutBlast. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source) | @MarwanTahtah
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Hi, I'm Karim Merhej, contributing writer at The Public Source. Find me @karim_merhej
This week I'll be sharing with you what went wrong at Lebanon's Social Security Fund.
Co-written with Kareem Chehayeb (@chehayebk) and edited by Julia Choucair Vizoso.
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[Photo of the Day] The Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities (LUPD), along with persons who became disabled by the blast and other groups, organized a protest at the Ministry of Justice.
Beirut, Lebanon. August 3, 2021. | @yaralmurr
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[Archival Photo of the Day] On this day in 1987, over a decade after the start of the civil war, an open-ended general strike called for by the General Confederation of Workers, among others, began across Lebanon. (As-Safir, November 4, 1987)
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Urban studies professor Mona Fawaz and urban researcher Soha Mneimneh caution against a new wave of displacement and stress the urgency for a new housing policy for people and against real-estate predators. | @mona_fawaz @MneimnehSoha @BeirutUrbanLab
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This is disturbing for a number of reasons, but most importantly because the government is using a security agency—one that does not legally have jurisdiction over the press—to harass journalists for committing journalism.
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For decades, Lebanon's youth have sought a better life abroad. The opportunities might be better, but the decision to leave is not an easy one. In "Decay or Alienation," Hisham Rifai and Ayman Makarem look at what it's like to reckon with that decision.
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[Press] On October 23, 2024, the Israeli military issued what can only be described as a kill list of six journalists working in northern Gaza.
The Public Source views the deafening silence of the international and regional press as a grave affront to Palestinian journalists in particular and to journalism more broadly.
While press freedom organizations have decried the threats made against these and other Palestinian journalists, we are deeply troubled by their framing that assumes that were the accusations true, then the journalists in question would, de facto, be rendered legitimate targets of war.
Read our full statement that affirms our unwavering and unconditional solidarity with them and all of our Palestinian colleagues.
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توفي أمس الكاتب والناشر المقاوم سماح إدريس عن ستين عاماً. تخسر بيروت و تخسر الثقافة العربية بفقدان إدريس مؤلّفاً وناشراً لم يتزحزح يوماً عن استخدام كتاباته للدفاع عن فلسطين والعرب، والذي وقف بحزم طول حياته في وجه خيانة التطبيع الثقافي، وغير الثقافي، مع اسرائيل. #سماح_إدريس
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[Dispatches from the Lebanese Front] Jasbir Puar (@jkpuar) on the Pager Attacks and the Right to Maim:
"The recent horrific attacks on southern Lebanon and in Beirut, killing hundreds of people, indicate that the right to maim and the right to kill are no longer in a supplementary relation — one modulating or covering for the other — but rather, both are explicitly enacted as strategies of violent decimation."
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We urge you to stand with independent media in Lebanon.
The Public Source will be at the Cybercrime Bureau on Thursday, April 6, at 10 am. You can follow @NakabaBadila for more updates on these and other attacks on the press.
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[Photo of the Day] Lebanese State Security officiers control the flow of traffic near a gas station in Jdeideh, Lebanon as the nationwide supply shortage of gasoline continues to fuel public anger. June 11, 2021. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)
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The Public Source reporters will be on the street throughout the day covering the various mobilizations taking place on the first anniversary of the #BeirutBlast.
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To find out more about Lebanon's supposed "golden era," stay tuned for our upcoming (Dis)order Report "Paradise Lost? The Myth of Lebanon's Golden Era" by @karim_merhej, edited by Julia Choucair Vizoso.
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As Israel's war on Lebanon intensifies, The Public Source returns to 2006 to tell the story of Samidoun.
We retrace how a movement of civil resistance, rooted in self-organized solidarity, blunted the edge of Israel’s offensive and contributed to its defeat.
Reporting by Simon Assaf (@SWassaf)
Edited by Sintia Issa (@sinborg)
Photo by Marwan Tahtah (@MarwanTahtah)
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On Friday, October 13, just after 6:00 p.m, two Israeli airstrikes targeted a group of 7 journalists reporting from southern Lebanon.
Issam Abdallah was one of them.
The first airstrike killed him instantly.
He was 37.
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In The Public Source's first visual investigation, journalist Kareem Chehayeb reconstructs Omar Tayba's final hours to reveal the 29-year-old's location when he was critically wounded by security forces in Tripoli's Nour Square. | @chehayebk
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Ours is not an isolated case, of course.
Our colleague Jean Kassir at @megaphone_news was also recently summoned by Amn ad-Dawleh (State Security), another security institution that does not have the right to oversee the press.
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Did Lebanon’s Ministry of Labor just abolish kafala? No. And even if it did, The PS editor Sintia Issa explains why reforming or even abolishing kafala is not enough. | @Sinborg
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In the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles to political change and the urgency of the crisis, how might organizers and activists make gains against the establishment? Nadim El Kak makes the case for a multipronged political strategy. | @NadimElkak
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Seizing Knowledge Production in Solidarity With Palestine
by Julia Choucair Vizoso
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Upcoming today: Our October 2022 issue
In it, we explore the dark side of Lebanon’s “Solar Revolution," sit w/ some of the many children left behind at the beg of the school year, situate Kafala in the context of postwar neoliberalization, remember our ancestral plants and more.
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Lebanon’s economic collapse has deeply aggravated housing insecurity. No official statistics on homelessness exist, but housing rights activists say numbers are on the rise, especially in large cities, where half of all residents are renters.
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"Nooses Are Not Enough”: One Week Into the #Beirut Explosion.
Text by Lara Bitar and Kareem Chehayeb. Photos by The Public Source contributing photographers. | @LaraJBitar, @chehayebk
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On the fourth commemoration of the August 4 Beirut port explosion, we revisit survivors we profiled three years ago. Not a single government official has checked on them in those three years, and they continue to bear the cost of their medical care alone. thepublicsource.org/august4-…
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The Lebanese state adopted a hands-off approach to the country's economy in order to preserve its supposed "free market."
The result?
A "cartel economy" where prominent oligarchic families and firms monopolized key sectors of the economy and the import of essential commodities.
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In "Taking the Bus Alone," Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck writes beautifully and powerfully about what it feels like to watch the patriarchy be put on notice in public. | @zeinabeck
Featured in our "Dispatches from the October Revolution"
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We're honored to have been awarded first place in the Schneider Award Small Media category for our reporting — @karim_merhej @chehayebk @cavalcantich — on Beirut explosion survivors who were abandoned by the Lebanese state after sustaining injuries that left them w/ disabilities.
Congratulations to Karim Merhej, Kareem Chehayeb and Christina Cavalcanti of The Public Source, who took first in the @NCDJ_ASU contest recognizing the best disability reporting in the country by small media. Read their story here.
bit.ly/3VA6wO0
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[Photo of the Day] A woman strolls along Corniche Ain el-Mreisseh, from where we can see Mount Sannine in the background. It is uncharacteristically void of snow for this time of year. (Marwan Tahtah/The Public Source)
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We're 200 people away from reaching 4,000 followers.
👀 Will you help us get there [by Sunday at 11:59 pm] by sharing any of our recent work or account/site? 👀
We've got 3 The Public Source notebooks (pictured) to give away.
Pick up from our Beirut office (dog not included).
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"I prayed to God and said, if I die today, please take care of my daughter."
Ghanaian domestic worker Doris Agbakey shares her story of surviving the #BeirutBlast, as documented by journalist @ZahraHankir and photographer @lynnkchaya.
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Lost in the diplomatic fallout between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon is the devastating impact the war in Yemen has had on its people.
More than 130,000 have been killed in the war, a quarter of whom are children, and about 3.6 million have been internally displaced.
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Over the past 6 months, Israeli occupation forces repeatedly fired munitions, incl. US-supplied white phosphorus, which burned acres of lands in more than 53 villages in south Lebanon.
The shelling has also destroyed 47,000 olive trees, killed nearly 1,000 chickens & cattle, and damaged 250 beehives.
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Journalist Layla Yammine (@laylayammine9) visited a rural village in northern Lebanon.
While there, a local man approached her and asked her to tell the world about his local community’s problems.
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The marginalization of Palestinians living in camps in Lebanon has long been driven by spatial politics. Journalist Rabie Mustapha looks at how these politics produce isolation, surveillance, and control.
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The LF, a political party that grew out of a wartime militia, was angered by an article we published that drew attention to some of the environmental crimes they committed during and after the Lebanese civil war.
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Hello 👋🏽
Every week, one journalist or editor from The Public Source will be taking over our account to introduce themselves to you and share their latest.
Join our community to discuss the critical issues raised in our March 2022 issue:
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Valiant efforts to break the cartels, such as health minister Emile Bitar's attempt to break the pharmaceutical cartel in 1971, were ultimately unsuccessful.
Caricatures depicting Bitar fighting an octopus and a snake representing the cartel (Courtesy of @karimbitar)
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Urban researchers Dana Mazraani, Luna Dayekh, and Mona Harb present the efforts of the Beirut Urban Lab toward reclaiming unbuildable lots in the interest of communal life and civic services in times of crisis. | @dana_mazraani @LunaDayekh @mona_harb_
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[Dispatches From the Lebanese Front] Lebanese security forces attempted to forcibly evict residents of the derelict Hamra Star Hotel on Monday, injuring several individuals and their supporters, before popular pressure forced authorities to grant the residents a 48-hour reprieve.
With the deadline now passed, many residents still have nowhere to go. Around 100 residents remain in the building, unsure when police will return.
After security forces threatened the residents, a woman from Houla told The Public Source: “We refuse to leave this building unless it’s to return to our homes and villages.”
Reporting by Fátima Fouad el-Samman (@sittelhozon).
Photos by Fatima Joumaa.
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#أخبار_الساحة #حرب_لبنان #بيروت
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[المصدر المرئي] "برزخ" مساحة للقراءة تستلهم روح المكتبات المستقلة في الحمرا وتشكّل فكرة "برزخ" حالة رفض لانهيار فُرض على العامة وعلى حالة الاكتئاب الجماعية.
بقلم الصحافية غادة حداد.
تصوير ريتا قبلان ومروان طحطح.
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The Public Source deeply condoles Simone Fattal, The Post-Apollo Press, and everyone touched by Etel Adnan’s Oeuvre and presence in this world.
"Laurels and lilacs bloom around [her] head because [she] stood up to the sun.” -- Etel Adnan, The Spring Flowers Own (1990)
Etel Adnan (1925-2021), lesbian poet, storyteller, and painter died at the age of 96 in Paris, concluding a rich life attuned to the beauty of nature, engaged in struggle at home and in the heart of empire. She leaves us with an artistic and intellectual legacy spanning a century
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Egypt's dictatorship has repeatedly tried to block, silence & intimidate @MadaMasr.
The Public Source stands in solidarity w/ its editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, and all imprisoned journalists in Egypt, consistently demonstrating the power of a free press.
Security forces arrested Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, a short while ago from outside Tora Prison, where she had been interviewing Laila Soueif, the mother of imprisoned activist Alaa Abd El Fattah.
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The fall of Intra Bank in the 1960s has become the stuff of legend. Conspiracy theories abound for why Lebanon’s once-biggest bank wasn’t too big to fail.
And to this day, Intra's legacy haunts us.
That’s why @Karim_merhej decided to return to it.
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[Chronicles of the Crisis] To date, 7,769 people have died from COVID-19 in Lebanon. How many lives could've been saved by doing things differently?
Journalist Yara El Murr examines the life-saving strategy the government refuses to consider. | @yaralmurr thepublicsource.org/lebanon-…
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On #InternationalWorkersDay, we spoke w/ 5 organizing bodies formed in Oct 17 & earlier political moments. They share their visions & organizing processes for reclaiming labor & intersecting struggles, for some as a fight for rights and for others toward radical transformation.
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"Dispatches from the October Revolution:"
Organized labor played a key role in uprisings around the region, but it is almost absent in Lebanon's. In "Did Someone Say Workers?" Lea Bou Khater explains what happened to the labor movement. | @Leaboukhater
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I'm Sintia Issa and I'm back this week to tell you about the 1987 strike that braved the barricades. | @sinborg
ALT History is brimming with antidotes to despair, and that is its power. Radical moments from the past can fan today’s embers of popular dissent, but only if we dust the past off of these moments and bring them into the now.
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We are recruiting two interns to join our investigative unit for 3 months. Kindly read our submission guidelines carefully before applying, or sending an inquiry.
Deadline: August 8, 2020
Location: Lebanon
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[The Day That Never Ended] Life and Death on the Margins
Director of @ARM_Leb Farah Salka on the brazen indifference to migrant workers' lives in the aftermath of August 4. | @Salkation; Edited by Sintia Issa | @sinborg; Add. research by @TheresaSahyoun.
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Lebanon had a particularly dry winter, with only a couple of sparse storms. With less rain, higher temperatures & mistimed seasons, agriculture is at risk.
Journalist Yara El Murr spoke with farmers about how the changing climate affected their harvests
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As people across historic Palestine face a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign & barbaric military assaults, this week's "National Gazette Fridays" is dedicated to retrieving Lebanon’s decrees from 1947 to 1954 as they relate to the Palestinian struggle (republished w/o commentary).
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[Photo of the Day] Protesters hold a sit-in in Martyrs' Square in support of Palestinians fighting back against their dispossession by Israel from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Beirut, Lebanon. | @MohaCheb
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[In-Trans] The Zionist entity’s war on Lebanon embodies the Gaza Doctrine — rather than the Dahieh Doctrine — as many have asserted, Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb), lecturer in politics at the University of Cardiff and scholar of Hezbollah and politics of the Resistance Axis, wrote earlier this month.
In her thread on X, she tackled how Israeli rhetoric is meant to provoke some communities in Lebanon into taking up arms and fuel broader anti-Shi’a violence.
The Public Source asked Dr. Saad to expand on some of her points.
“From Dahieh to Gaza: Israel’s Doctrines of Destruction” is an amalgamation of her original thread and her exchange with our contributing editor Farah Kanaan.
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[Editorial] "Lebanon First:” On the Politics of Neutrality on a Moving Train, by The Public Source editor Lara Bitar | @LaraJBitar
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One year ago today, a popular uprising ignited in Lebanon.
Our "Dispatches from the October Revolution" reported on the prospects, openings & political imaginations it unleashed, as well as its limitations. Catch up on all our Dispatches now:
#١٧_تشرين
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Torn apart by the #BeirutBlast, Karantina’s heritage is threatened yet again. How can the district hold on to its social and economic fabric?
Urban researchers Howayda Al-Harithi and Batoul Yassine argue for a people-centered & heritage-led recovery.
thepublicsource.org/post-dis…
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We've unfortunately had to update our #BeirutBlast death count today after confirming the death of beloved pharmacist Arlette Jean Kitaa who passed away exactly one year after the explosion.
Our own record is incomplete and likely contains errors.
We are making it publicly available in the hope of recognizing every victim of the explosion.
So we need your corrections, input, and contributions.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Dozens of protesters gather in Tripoli's Nour Square tonight to demand justice for Omar Tayba.
One year ago, Omar was killed for attending a protest against Lebanon's desperate living conditions.
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قريباً على مصدر عام. #انفجار_مرفأ_بيروت
Soon on The Public Source. #BeirutBlast
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Join our commissioning editor Simon Assaf (@SWassaf) and veteran writer Tariq Ali (@TariqAli_News) for an emergency public meeting in London on October 9.
#LebanonUnderAttack #Beirut
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In "Are you depressed? You could be suffering from oppression," Beirut-based psychiatrist Andres Barkil-Oteo looks at the impact of oppressive power structures on mental health and why we shouldn’t reduce social problems to the individual. | @andre06511
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Power struggles, criminal deregulation and a perpetual "temporary committee" at the Beirut Port are essential ingredients of a recipe for disaster. Researcher Rohan Advani looks back at the decades-long corruption that led to the #BeirutBlast. | @rohadvani
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Our own record is incomplete and likely contains errors.
We are making it publicly available in the hope of recognizing every victim of the explosion.
So we need your corrections, input, and contributions.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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