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An Unhelpful Guide to Surviving Lebanon
“Surviving Lebanon, if you are not upper class, a child of a rotten politician or…

Me, the Authority and My Mother
The hug after leaving prison is different from the hug upon entering. The latter is…

The Journey of a Bag of Pleasures from Beirut to Damascus
Crossing dangerous checkpoints, evading nasty soldiers, risking looting and detention, a Lebanese bag of pleasures…

How to Make a Lebanese Emigrant
In the end of the day, it’s just another person getting off a plane on…

France: A Syrian in Europe Searching for Hot Water
“The first picture I published was one of Paris by night, taken from the plane.…

Syria: The Day I Was Accused of Being Bashar al-Assad…
Is seeing reality from more than one angle an act of betrayal? Have our dreams…

Syria: The Day the Revolutionary Flag Was Raised in our Village…
“When the soldier was about halfway, at a height of some fifty meters, fear paralyzed…

Daraa: Syrian Government Resorts to Old tactics of Siege and Bombardment
If the international community, and particularly Russia, does not intervene to pressure Syrian authorities to…

I Don’t Want To Remember
Repression isn’t forgetting. They tell me to never forget, as if I ever will. I…

Lebanon: An Hour in Line for Fuel
A trauma that involves waiting in line for hours to fill up your car, normalizing…