Mattresses installed between the red seats of the theater in Sour, transformed into a shelter for displaced people. (Credit: Tiro Association)
The road between Beirut and Sour — 83 kilometers south of the capital and 20 kilometers from the Israeli border — is anything but safe.Alerts announcing the destruction of bridges leading to this city, founded in the 3rd millennium B.C. and once a major center of the Phoenician world, accompany every trip with a deep undertone of fear. Another field report Cupcakes and yo-yos: How Lebanon’s youth are keeping Eid alive for displaced children The highway between Saida and Sour is nearly deserted. Only our car, marked "Press," speeds along, a fragile talisman for a team that came to gather the words of the displaced from Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, and to take the pulse of a city emptied of its pedestrians.Sour resembles no other Mediterranean city. A city of stone — true to its Phoenician name — it refuses to bend....
The road between Beirut and Sour — 83 kilometers south of the capital and 20 kilometers from the Israeli border — is anything but safe.Alerts announcing the destruction of bridges leading to this city, founded in the 3rd millennium B.C. and once a major center of the Phoenician world, accompany every trip with a deep undertone of fear. Another field report Cupcakes and yo-yos: How Lebanon’s youth are keeping Eid alive for displaced children The highway between Saida and Sour is nearly deserted. Only our car, marked "Press," speeds along, a fragile talisman for a team that came to gather the words of the displaced from Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun, and to take the pulse of a city emptied of its pedestrians.Sour resembles no other Mediterranean city. A city of stone — true to its Phoenician name — it refuses to...
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