معبر | Maabar

<p>Driven only by duty, first responders leap into the cauldron of war. Barely prepared and minimally trained, but always resourceful, they are stripped of politics and religion. On the ground, from mopping blood to...

<p>New Season. April 24.<br><br>#newseason #season3 #april24 #podcast #civilwar #lebanon</p>

<p>In our final episode, we close the series with the Lebanese journalists who tell of their struggles to balance between their job of documenting, in words or in photographs, their own country’s destruction, and of...

<p>This penultimate episode of our 9-part special focuses on the reflection of the francophone journalists and their role during the war, the savagery of what the civil war entailed, its futility, lives lost in vain...

<p>In this episode, journalists burst the “rock and roll” image of war to expose its harsh and brutal reality where people act like vicious monsters. Packed with gripping tales and profound reflections on what this...

<p>French audio. For subtitles in Arabic and in English please listen to the episode on YouTube.<br><br>In this episode, we hear first hand what it was like to be held hostage in another country, another war; from being...

<p>In this chapter, we learn how a city severed and a country truncated becomes a maze that journalists must learn to navigate, to cross lines from one sector to the next, from East to West and West to East, to do their...

<p>In this episode, we hear about how addictive war becomes for the journalists covering it as they describe the smell of fear and the thrill of existing on the fine line between life and death. For some, the only way...

<p>We continue with foreign correspondents, this episode focusing on Anglophones, telling of their experience of coming to grips with the particularities of life during the Lebanese Civil War, and in the process...

<p>In the first episode of our special 9 part-series on journalism during the Lebanese Civil War, we hear how Lebanese reporters and photographers suddenly found themselves covering a war, while gradually learning on...

<p>This episode shares the insights of foreign correspondents, mainly the francophones, and how they found themselves lured to Beirut on assignments to cover the war, while experiencing the upside of privileged life...

<p>New episodes out January 18, 2024.</p>

<p>Support "Maabar" on Patreon.</p><p><br><br>What happens when war ends? How do you pick up your life, plan for the next day, the next week, the next month? What role do you play when your last fifteen years were...

<p>Support "Maabar" on Patreon.</p><p><br>Disclaimer: This episode contains heavy language and strong depictions of violence that may be triggering to some. Please be advised.<br><br>When all is said and done, war is...

<p>Support "Maabar" on Patreon.<br><br>How do you live a life shaped by sporadic destruction and fatal randomness? What happens when you adapt, start living instead of only surviving? When the absurdity of war becomes...