Photographs to accompany a feature on the impact of Lebanon’s financial collapse on the northern city of Tripoli.
Read MoreOn Christmas Eve last year, Sara crossed the threshold of the prison that had been her home for nearly 12 years. She stopped, found that she couldn’t move any further, and started to cry. The social worker who was there to pick her up asked Sara what was wrong. “I never saw outside like this. Everything I know is inside,” she responded.
Read MoreFor over two decades Abu Ali was a familiar sight in Beirut’s Hamra neighborhood, where every morning he would sell kaak, the traditional purse-shaped bread, from his cart on the side of the street. When his cart was impounded and destroyed by the authorities last week, the 63-year-old didn’t know what else to do but return to the same spot.
Read MoreNearly 3,000 meters above the Mediterranean, around the corner from one of Lebanon’s most popular ski resorts, a group of skiers and snowboarders waits atop a mountain for their number to be called.
Read MoreLamis stands next to the fifth-floor window of her hospital room, looking out over the playground of a school in Beirut’s Al-Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood.
Read More“I prefer to not stay here – you can see how the situation is,” Abd al-Mohsen from Syria’s Homs said as he sat on an orange plastic chair in his family’s wood-framed tent sealed with patchwork nylon in the Bekaa Valley.
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