Illustrations by Jaimee Haddad
The sun rises. Beneath the familiar boom, there’s a faint chirp. The streets awaken. At first, the air smells of char and shrapnel, then, just before dawn, a faint scent of coffee begins to surface.News reporting during wartime is crucial. But what happens in between the headlines?The human consequences of Israeli attacks are not always fully captured; they emerge through storytelling and the patient work of ethnography. This edition brings you a week of short- and long-form stories from our publication. Last week's BiB War facsimiles and Beirut’s collateral beauty War thumbnails: New seriesLebanon is steeped in Israeli aggression like a horrific film we have seen before. Every week, we tell a short story from the country during war.A taxi driving through Beirut on a rainy afternoon. (Credit: Yara Malke/L'Orient Today) Inside...
The sun rises. Beneath the familiar boom, there’s a faint chirp. The streets awaken. At first, the air smells of char and shrapnel, then, just before dawn, a faint scent of coffee begins to surface.News reporting during wartime is crucial. But what happens in between the headlines?The human consequences of Israeli attacks are not always fully captured; they emerge through storytelling and the patient work of ethnography. This edition brings you a week of short- and long-form stories from our publication. Last week's BiB War facsimiles and Beirut’s collateral beauty War thumbnails: New seriesLebanon is steeped in Israeli aggression like a horrific film we have seen before. Every week, we tell a short story from the country during war.A taxi driving through Beirut on a rainy afternoon. (Credit: Yara Malke/L'Orient Today)...
