Journalisting, knitting and sewing in Lebanon🐌 Eyes on environment, rural life, offbeat 📝 My recent reporting: madelineedwardsjournalist.co…
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3 Jan 2025
Khijou and Samar al-Khateeb are two sisters from the Moadhamiyet al-Sham suburb of Damascus.
Between them are more than three years of torture and arbitrary detainment in Assad's prison network, and multiple loved ones lost to prison:
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I'll never forget the memory of landing in Beirut in 2024 with multiple plumes of black smoke coming out of Dahieh buildings just beneath the window :/
Mar 3
A commercial airplane was seen taking off in Beirut as Israeli airstrikes hit the Lebanese capital.
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Feb 26
Lebanon's dating scene 1) niche dating apps filter matches by specific political parties 2) offline "blind art dates" separated by wooden boards 3) interfaith couples announce romance only after the wedding 4) packed speed-dating parties.
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Feb 27
RT @mona_harb_: Excellent piece by @MEdwardsJO about love & dating in Lebanon amid multiple crises newlinesmag.com/spotlight/wa…
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5 Dec 2025
8. 🧵As the fate of Syria’s minorities continues to make headlines, this essay by @MEdwardsJO offers a firsthand account from Sweida, the Druze-majority province, as it adjusts to a dramatically changed political landscape.
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11 Sep 2025
NEW: In Akkar, northern Lebanon, Sufism thrives while it fades elsewhere. Villages keep centuries-old “zikr” prayer ceremonies alive, blending mysticism & joy. @MEdwardsJO reports from the celebrations of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday for @newlinesmag
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27 Aug 2025
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From Tyre’s bomb-scarred banana fields to Tripoli’s Ottoman clock tower, @MEdwardsJO rode the length of Lebanon on its first new public transit system in decades. She recounts the experience for @newlinesmag, with photos by João Sousa. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ri…
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21 Aug 2025
NEW: From Tyre’s bomb-scarred banana fields to Tripoli’s Ottoman clock tower, @MEdwardsJO rode the length of Lebanon on its first new public transit system in decades. She recounts the experience for @newlinesmag, with photos by João Sousa.
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9 Apr 2025
NEW: In Lebanon's Druze mountains, belief in reincarnation intertwines with the trauma of the country’s civil war, which began 50 years ago. @MEdwardsJO writes about memory, loss and rebirth for @newlinesmag.
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9 Apr 2025
In Lebanon's Druze mountains, belief in reincarnation intertwines with the trauma of the country’s civil war.
A fascinating piece by @MEdwardsJO @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/reportage/re…
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Madeline Edwards retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Lebanon today is awash with hope. The combined efforts of the opposition have brought to power a president and prime minister who are bent on implementing reforms. Long road ahead, but this is nothing short of a tsunami, and a victory for October 17.
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9 Jan 2025
Children, reduced to bits of torn body parts in cardboard boxes:
9 Jan 2025
The remains of four family members, including a newborn daughter and a teenage boy, were retrieved following an early morning Israeli strike on a house in Deir El-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Fragments of their bodies were gathered into boxes and bags and brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir El-Balah.
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3 Jan 2025
Khijou and Samar al-Khateeb are two sisters from the Moadhamiyet al-Sham suburb of Damascus.
Between them are more than three years of torture and arbitrary detainment in Assad's prison network, and multiple loved ones lost to prison:
@AJEnglish aljazeera.com/features/longf…
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3 Jan 2025
I found only one poster for a missing imprisoned woman among thousands of posters of men on my recent visit to Damascus, where families are posting pictures of their loved ones who went missing (or were killed) in Assad's prisons
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3 Jan 2025
Yet the Assad regime's prison network was uniquely cruel to women, sisters Khijou and Samar told me from their home near Damascus.
“As female detainees, as mothers of detainees, as wives of detainees, we have no forgiveness."
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Madeline Edwards retweeted
2 Jan 2025
One of the several biggest domestic Syria stories these days involves Sweida/Druze:
- @MEdwardsJO reports from Sweida, the home province of Sultan al-Atrash, with a long history of revolt against outsiders, for @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/spotlight/jo…
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2 Jan 2025
NEW: Sweida celebrates the fall of the Assad regime but uncertainty looms under Syria’s new rules. What does the future hold for Syria’s Druze? @MEdwardsJO reports from the province for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/jo…
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26 Dec 2024
My heart aches for Dania, the wife of journalist Ayman Al-Jadi, one of the five journalists killed in Gaza last night. Ayman was waiting at the hospital as his wife went into labor with their first child. He never had a moment of joy—married during the war without celebration, and killed just moments before meeting his newborn. Dark days.
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