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ON THE GROUND

In the space between the ruins, in Lebanese cities bombed by Israel, a pulse returns

In Sour, Nabatieh, Baalbeck, and the southern suburbs of Beirut, the rubble left by Israeli bombs looms large, and even though schools and businesses are reopening, the missing are omnipresent.

In the space between the ruins, in Lebanese cities bombed by Israel, a pulse returns

The view from Ali's apartment in Roueiss, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, destroyed by Israeli raids. (Credit: Emmanuel Haddad/L'Orient-Le Jour)

Sitting on her doorstep in a sloping alley of Nabatieh's Rahbat neighborhood, Asra al-Traboulsi waits for the arrival of the bus that brings her daughter home from school. With her kohl-drawn eyebrows and a cage containing her canary,she seems...
Sitting on her doorstep in a sloping alley of Nabatieh's Rahbat neighborhood, Asra al-Traboulsi waits for the arrival of the bus that brings her daughter home from school. With her kohl-drawn eyebrows and a cage containing her canary,she seems...