Shooting instructor Cynthia Yaacoub. (Credit: Aly Baalbaky/L'Orient-Le Jour)
A series of gunshots shatters the silence at the General Security shooting club under the Adlieh bridge in Beirut. Behind a bulletproof window, a woman reloads her weapon. Her long blonde braid crosses the drawing of a rifle printed on the back of her jacket. “Cynthia Yaacoub, the instructor,” is written above it. Another volley rings out. At the end of the shooting lane, the center of the target is riddled with holes.“When I shoot, I forget everything around me. I only see the target,” says Cynthia Yaacoub, 35, from Tannourine in northern Lebanon. A shooting instructor since 2019, she takes a break between two classes at the shooting club. “My favorite weapon is a precision rifle. But we can’t find a training range for that in Lebanon,” she says as she puts away her Smith & Wesson pistol.Shooting instructor Cynthia Yaacoub at the...
A series of gunshots shatters the silence at the General Security shooting club under the Adlieh bridge in Beirut. Behind a bulletproof window, a woman reloads her weapon. Her long blonde braid crosses the drawing of a rifle printed on the back of her jacket. “Cynthia Yaacoub, the instructor,” is written above it. Another volley rings out. At the end of the shooting lane, the center of the target is riddled with holes.“When I shoot, I forget everything around me. I only see the target,” says Cynthia Yaacoub, 35, from Tannourine in northern Lebanon. A shooting instructor since 2019, she takes a break between two classes at the shooting club. “My favorite weapon is a precision rifle. But we can’t find a training range for that in Lebanon,” she says as she puts away her Smith & Wesson pistol.Shooting instructor Cynthia...
