In-depth and uncompromising journalism in the public interest | إعلام مكرَّس لإنتاج صحافة معمّقة وغير مساوِمة لخدمة المصلحة العامّة
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We are looking for rigorous, well-sourced work — journalistic, historical, or investigative — that is grounded in anti-imperialist and anti-colonial commitments on Lebanon and the region. We are also interested in photo essays, testimonies, and interviews.
ALT Image: Marwan Bou Haidar/The Public Source CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Public Source invites writers from Lebanon, Palestine, and across the Global South to submit pitches and full-length drafts, in English or Arabic on the latest escalation of the ongoing imperial war on our region. thepublicsource.org/write
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“War crimes pile up, and the narrative frame still holds.”
Why is solidarity with anti-colonial and anti-imperial resistance so often dismissed as extremism?
Researcher Niyousha Bastani traces the psychological war on anti-imperialism ⬇️: thepublicsource.org/iran-ant…
ALT The Psychology of Empire How opposition to empire was pathologized from colonial psychiatry to contemporary counter-extremism programs. Image: Fatima Joumaa/The Public Source
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“In ‘anti-war’ organizing spaces, ‘leftist’ media and across social media platforms, they are further rebuked through a second, less scrutinized form of reprimand, exemplified in the recitation of the phrase, ‘Two things can be true at once,’” adds Niyousha Bastani.
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“Refusing surrender demands what Lara Sheehi theorizes as psychic militancy, which requires that we recognize psychological weapons for what they are, every time,” argues Niyousha Bastani.
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Satellite images, circulated on village WhatsApp group chats, are how some Lebanese families from the south visit their homes. Journalist Zaynab Mayladan (@zaymayladan) reflects on image analysis as a form of return in "The After-Image":
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ALT "Late to Your Own Loss" The After-Image Families displaced from border villages are turning to satellite images to process the destruction of their homes. By Zaynab Mayladan
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“There is a particular violence in watching your home be destroyed through someone else’s lens. The image arrives after the event has already happened,” writes journalist Zaynab Mayladan.
Israeli occupation forces demolished Mayladan’s grandparents’ home in late April 2026.
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“Israeli soldiers occupied [my grandparents' house] during the previous escalation in late 2024. They slept in it, stole from it, vandalized it, wrote on the walls in Hebrew, drew the Star of David, destroyed furniture, & used it as a military position,” writes Zaynab Mayladan.
ALT The house in Aitaroun. The walls are vandalized with black spray paint, hand-drawn grids with time markings and small doodles of fighter jets, writing in Hebrew, and the Star of David. Aitaroun, South Lebanon. February 15, 2025. (Zaynab Mayladan/The Public Source)
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Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered authorities to allow ICRC access to Palestinian detainees. Lebanon’s National Human Rights Commission (@nhrclb) is now calling for that access to extend to Lebanese prisoners — at least 30 remain held by Israel (@LebPrisoners).
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Journalist Dana Hourany (@DanaHourany) reported last month on the case of forgotten abductees, read:
thepublicsource.org/lebanese…
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A “Unilateral Ultimatum”: The Reassignment of Enmity from Israel to Hezbollah
Interview with Scholar Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb) about the June 3 agreement.
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"The talks cannot actually be called 'negotiations' because Lebanon is not negotiating anything.
They are a U.S.-Israeli-managed compliance process, with Hezbollah being the problem to be solved, while Israel is treated, not as a party to the conflict, but as the party entitled to decide whether or not Lebanon has complied, and to keep aggressing whenever it claims it has not."
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"The talks can not actually be called 'negotiations' because Lebanon is not negotiating anything."
They are a U.S.-Israeli-managed compliance process, with Hezbollah being the problem to be solved, while Israel is treated, not as a party to the conflict, but as the party entitled to decide whether or not Lebanon has complied, and to keep aggressing whenever it claims it has not.
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"In short, what the government is doing, as Kassem Ghorayeb has astutely observed, is worse than surrender."
Surrender would mean that the Lebanese authority acknowledges defeat, submits to the existing balance of power, and relinquishes its rights accordingly, without necessarily adopting the Israeli narrative that Lebanon is the aggressor and Israel the party aggressed against. But what the Lebanese authority is doing today goes far beyond surrender.
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Understanding the rhetorical workings of the Lebanese state in this current moment is so crucial
A “Unilateral Ultimatum”: The Reassignment of Enmity from Israel to Hezbollah
Interview with Scholar Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb) about the June 3 agreement.
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"The talks cannot actually be called 'negotiations' because Lebanon is not negotiating anything.
They are a U.S.-Israeli-managed compliance process, with Hezbollah being the problem to be solved, while Israel is treated, not as a party to the conflict, but as the party entitled to decide whether or not Lebanon has complied, and to keep aggressing whenever it claims it has not."
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In this interview by Christina Cavalcanti (@cavalcantich), scholar Amal Saad (@amalsaad_lb) argues that the June 3 agreement conditions a ceasefire on Hezbollah halting fire while placing no reciprocal obligation on Israel.
Read the interview at: thepublicsource.org/blog/leb…
ALT Image: Marwan Bou Haidar/The Public Source The Making of a New Public Enemy Scholar Amal Saad on how the June 3 agreement seeks to position Hezbollah — rather than Israel — as Lebanon’s primary threat. Interview by Christina Cavalcanti
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مصدر عام | The Public Source retweeted
Many problems w/ US-Israeli-Lebanese joint statement & “negotiations” that produced them. All are underpinned by false assumptions:
(1) core problem is Hizballah;
(2) Israeli aggression is merely response to Hizballah;
(3) LAF is boxed out of role it otherwise capable of.
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Calls to disarm Hezbollah rarely acknowledge Israel’s ongoing aggression. They also overlook the political and material constraints that have long prevented the Lebanese Armed Forces from assuming a defensive role.
Historian Ziad Abu-Rish (@ziadaburish) breaks down these constraints and interrogates the question of sovereignty: thepublicsource.org/lebanese…
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Israeli soldiers entered homes in Beit Lif, staging belongings to fabricate claims of weapons. Then, they blew up neighborhoods, leaving families displaced and watching their homes turned into military propaganda.
Riyasa Ismail’s home was one of them.
thepublicsource.org/blog/leb…
ALT “The Enemy Made My Home His Headline” Dispatches By Riyasa Ismail Translated by Basyma Saad
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Forty days have passed since Israel assassinated beloved veteran Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.
In 2025, Fátima Fouad el-Samman (@sittelhozon) interviewed Khalil about the ethics & politics of journalism. Today, we share her voice with you.
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Amal Khalil was clear in her conviction; she persisted in her reporting despite knowing full well that Israel has turned the press vest into a target. It never deterred her from the frontline of the truth. We carry her voice forward. May Amal Khalil rest in peace.
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The Israeli military cornered, targeted, and killed Khalil on April 22 while she took refuge from Israeli airstrikes in a building in al-Tiri alongside photojournalist Zeinab Faraj, who was injured.
Images in clips by Fatima Joumaa.
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