Published in The Atlas, this story investigates how Israeli drones and targeted threats have intensified the dangers facing journalists in southern Lebanon. Through firsthand accounts of reporters subjected to surveillance, intimidation, and threats, it explores how modern warfare extends beyond the battlefield, turning journalists into potential targets and undermining their ability to report freely and safely.

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Beirut tells me to walk. But she never tells me where. Sidewalks begin and end abruptly, like cut sentences. They rise without reason and drop without mercy. They stay straight just long enough to lure you, then tilt against you. Measuring my day in steps, I find the city owes me curb ramps, streetlights, and an apology, plus the space stolen by café tables that treat the sidewalk as profit, not passage.
In big cities, anonymity can be a shelter; people pass without looking. In Beirut, everyone...

Since I can remember, I’ve wanted to live in New York.
The aspiration lives in my earliest memories, like when I was around five years old and my father brought home a colourful atlas with pages detailing the ‘Big Apple’. Every city has a symbol, and New York’s was an apple. Years later, I learned that my home city, Beirut, is also called an “apple”. But even so, I suspect I might love the “Big Apple” more.

Since 2006, Hezbollah’s “Promise” and “Jihad al-Bina” organizations have filled the void of the absent state, accumulating clientelist capital. The Syrian war further fused “regional security” with “national contract,” turning debate into a tool of accusation and treason. Today, amid renewed tensions, Lebanon lives by unwritten rules of engagement, a politics of permanent exception, and a life perched on the edge of a suspended future. The legal contract has not collapsed outright, but it has sh...

“It is the great Syria, not Assad’s Syria”. This powerful declaration by the late artist and activist Mai Skaf became more than just a slogan—it was an anthem of defiance that echoed through the streets of Syria and across the world. It embodied the unyielding hope of a people determined to reclaim their homeland, a rallying cry that inspired countless revolutionaries to stand against tyranny and envision a free Syria beyond the grip of dictatorship.


With the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian...