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28.06.24 — Layla Yammine The struggle for mental health in Lebanon’s multiple crises

Beirut The tremendous pressure since the start of Lebanon's financial collapse has left millions of people unable to afford mental health services. Read more

Mental health, a political issue in the Arab world 27.06.24 — Léonard Sompairac

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Dossier on mental health in the Arab world produced as part of the activities of the Independent Media Network on the Arab World.

Where couscous ends 12.11.21 — Amro Ali

Alexandria Casablanca

Alexandria’s connection to the Maghreb is often overlooked. But the cosmopolitan port city developed through centuries of migration and influence from the western side of the Mediterranean, up until the colonial era and the building of self-centered nation states.

Unavailable and unsanitary 10.11.21 — Habib Battah

Beirut

A sign at the entrance of Kamed El Loz refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley promises to solve water issues but residents say they have been abandoned.

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The Mediterranean is more than a water body. Its shores and inhabitants are interlinked by centuries of exchange.
What happens to the mind and soul when we move places? In times of global immobility and isolation, what does the word migration mean beyond movement?
ماذا يحدث للعقل والروح عندما ننتقل من مكان إلى آخر؟ وفي زمن الجمود والعزلة حول العالم، ما الذي قد تعنيه كلمة الهجرة خارج حدود الحركة والتنقل؟
A neighbour, a person living by our side. We may differ in manners and ideas of how things should be done, but we will always stay closely connected.
More than a tool for reflecting what is, language is also a means of producing the real. It also has subversive potential – the ability to speak new kinds of selves, communities and solidarities into being, to resurrect mute narratives and resuscitate those that are running out of breath.

Visual Stories

Bittersweet portraits 14.11.11 — Mashallah Team

Beirut

Doodles, scribbles, drawings and sketches – the creations of 17-year-old Loulwa Beydoun.

Photos from Akkar 18.08.14 — Constance Proux, Philippine Proux

Tripoli LB

Constance and Philippine Proux’s work focuses on the narratives of displaced Syrians living as refugees in Akkar, a frequently unstable border region.

Birqash camel market 27.05.12 — Brady NG

Cairo

A photo essay of a Friday spent at the well known Birqash camel market in Egypt.

Remnants of a lost 02.09.12 — Mashallah Team

Beirut Damascus

Rare enlargements of small prints and contact sheets of photos taken in Lebanon and Syria’s Palestinian refugee camps in 1981.

Terres compromises 22.05.11 — Ismaël Abdallah

Ramallah

Matthieu Gafsou est un jeune photographe suisse qui vit et travaille à Lausanne. Ses clichés, de nature documentaire, questionnent les notions d’espace et de territoire, notamment à travers l’homme et son habitat. Mashallah News présente ici son dernier travail, terres compromises, série de 45 images effectuées en octobre 2010 lors d’un voyage d’un mois en […]