”هذا القانون الجديد مفيد للتجار الكبار. أما نحن، المزارعين الصغار، فستكون النهاية،“ تقول المزارعة زينب مهدي. بموجب قانون البذور الجديد، أي شخص يُنتج أصناف البذور أو يحفظها أو يوزعها من دون تسجيلها لدى الدولة، يواجه غرامة تصل إلى ٣.٥ مليار ليرة لبنانية وأحكامًا بالسجن حتى ثلاث سنوات.

Adeeb Farhat spent over two decades collecting fragments of Israel's occupation of South Lebanon. In this interview by Dana Hourany, the archivist reflects on the responsibility and politics of preserving these materials for collective memory. 🔗 Read: thepublicsource.org/southern-mem...

“I am the father of a martyr. Every day is a funeral.” In this latest installment of “The After-Image,” Fatima Joumaa returns to the South to commemorate Karbala amid the ruins of Israel’s war. Read: thepublicsource.org/after-image/...

What is meaningful agency under conditions designed to annihilate it? Nadine N. Sayegh takes on this question through the life of Yahya Sinwar, breaking every academic framework built to explain political agency. Read: thepublicsource.org/sinwar-gaza-...

”العودة إلى حزنٍ سابق هي رفض الصدفة كنمط للوجود أو الصيرورة.“ تتتبّع الكاتبة وَسيلة عبّود كيف يتشكّل الحزن في لبنان تحت شرط الهيمنة، عائدة إلى عام ١٩٨٢ كلحظة انشطر فيها هذا الحزن وتكاثر. thepublicsource.org/ar/dining-ta...

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The Lebanese government signed a U.S.-brokered framework agreement with Israel on June 26. For many, this is an unprecedented moment that could pave the way for a peaceful resolution to a decades-old problem. History suggests otherwise.

Lebanon, Israel, and the U.S. signed a “framework agreement” on June 26, meant to pave the way for the Lebanese state to hold a monopoly on violence, through the disarmament of Hezbollah, to guarantee civil peace. The long history of armed interventions in Lebanon raises difficult questions today.

The families of 4 Lebanese men who vanished in southern Lebanon demonstrated outside of Beirut's Grand Serail on June 24, demanding the government take action. On June 26, Lebanon, Israel, and the U.S. signed a framework agreement — only Clause 13 of which mentions abductees.

بالتزامن مع توقيع الولايات المتحدة والكيان الصهيوني ولبنان اتفاق إطار ثلاثي جديد في واشنطن، ننشر الترجمة العربية لتحليل المؤرخ والأكاديمي زياد أبو ريش، الذي يقدّم سياقًا تاريخيًا ضروريًا لفهم ما تعنيه هذه اللحظة. ⬇️ thepublicsource.org/ar/lebanese-... @ziadaburish.bsky.social

We’re proud to announce that journalists Habib Battah & Christina Cavalcanti, & editor Annia Ciezadlo, won The National Press Club’s 2026 Award for Examining the News Media investigative feature, “Israel's Willing Propagandists: What the Media Won't Tell You When it Embeds with the Military.”

Across southern Lebanon, Israel destroyed 11,095 buildings, damaged 17,891 housing units, according to a UNDP assessment. Photojournalist Marwan Bou Haidar documents the scale of destruction in Srifa, Bir el-Salasel, and Tebnine.

“The suffocating whistle of incoming shells hung in the air.” Fatima Mchaimech's hometown of Kfarsir burned under Israeli airstrikes on June 19. For “The After-Image,” she recounts that night and the martyrdom of her friend Fatima Dahawi: thepublicsource.org/after-image/...

Are children’s drawings during war simply expressions of their experiences? Writer Ahmad Mofeed reflects on children’s artwork as a form of testimony and historical documentation in our latest installment of “The After-Image:” thepublicsource.org/after-image/...

Southern Lebanese archivist Amani Rammal’s Withaqeyya insists that ordinary people resisting Zionism are the true architects of Lebanon’s contemporary history. Fatima el-Samman interviews her on the making of a people's archive. Read: thepublicsource.org/archives-occ...

A draft law could criminalize seed-saving practices in Lebanon, while Israel devastates southern Lebanon. Yara El Murr & Julia Choucair Vizoso take us inside the struggle to keep agriculture in the hands of the farmers who grow our food ⬇️: thepublicsource.org/seeds-food-s...

“A Silent War on Life” Out tomorrow on thepublicsource.org

“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-anti-im...

Satellite images, circulated on village WhatsApp group chats, are how some Lebanese families from the south visit their homes. Journalist Zaynab Mayladan reflects on image analysis as a form of return in "The After-Image": thepublicsource.org/after-image/...

Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court ordered authorities to allow ICRC access to Palestinian detainees. Lebanon’s National Human Rights Commission (@nhrclb.bsky.social) is now calling for that access to extend to Lebanese prisoners — at least 30 remain held by Israel.

A “Unilateral Ultimatum”: The Reassignment of Enmity from Israel to Hezbollah Interview with Scholar Amal Saad about the June 3 agreement. ---------------------------- "The talks cannot actually be called 'negotiations' because Lebanon is not negotiating anything."

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. thepublicsource.org/lebanese-arm...

In this interview by Christina Cavalcanti, scholar Amal Saad 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/lebanon...

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/lebanon...

Forty days have passed since Israel assassinated beloved veteran Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. In 2025, Fátima Fouad el-Samman interviewed Khalil about the ethics & politics of journalism. Today, we share her voice with you.

For months, families of detainees abducted by Israel have pushed for answers. At least 30 men are believed to be held by Israel, with no meaningful action from international bodies or the Lebanese state. Dana Hourany reports on the forgotten case of the abductees: thepublicsource.org/lebanese-abd...

For Resistance and Liberation Day, three photographers from southern Lebanon reflect on acts of defiance and resistance, the power of shared memories, collective returns home, engagements in battle, and the inevitability of a third liberation.

Israel killed 10 people in three separate strikes in south Lebanon on Friday, six of them first responders, according to local media.

“Now, almost 20 years later, I am effectively nocturnal.” Writer Reef H. Al-Amine revisits the recurring cycles of war and a childhood eclipsed by Israeli bombardment in the latest installment of The After-Image: https://thepublicsource.org/after-image/how-i-lost-sun

“What do we collect all that data for?” In 2024, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta spoke about how archives protect Palestinian history from erasure & colonial violence. On #Nakba78, his words remain an urgent call for documentation & return. thepublicsource.org/archiving-ag...