Layla Yammine

1 month ago | thepublicsource.org | Layla Yammine

When I first moved to Beirut seven years ago, I didn't go looking for coffee shops or galleries. I was after something more elemental, more urgent: a butcher, or rather my butcher. I'd been raised in a kitchen where nothing came prepackaged, where freshness wasn't a fashion trend, and where traditional culinary practices weren't a lifestyle choice. They were life itself. Meat came with bones, and bones came with a purpose. Two streets from my apartment, I discovered a tiny corner shop.

Oct 15, 2024 | mondoweiss.net | Layla Yammine

On Monday, September 23, more than 500,000 people were displaced from southern Lebanon after Israel launched a full-scale attack on towns and civilians under the pretext of targeting  Hezbollah’s storage facilities. We’ve seen this play out in Gaza and we know for a fact that this excuse aims to manufacture consent to massacre entire families and destroy entire towns. The Israeli goal is clear: to rob the land and kill the people — while expelling those it cannot kill.

Oct 14, 2024 | thepublicsource.org | Layla Yammine

The Public Source had been working on an article on Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) before Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon. We were curious to learn how the agency operated during the civil war. Little did we know we’d soon be given front-row seats. NNA reporter Ali Hussein Daoud was one of our main contacts.  He is nearing his 60s and is based in Nabatieh. Our journalist Layla Yammine started corresponding with him on October 1.

Oct 3, 2024 | missingperspectives.com | Layla Yammine

When I was around 8 years old, my neighbour and distant relative gifted me a bathroom towel decorated with a colourful band that she had embroidered herself. It included my name, stitched in a light red thread, small flowers that look like the ones that grow in the walls during winter time, stitched in light green, and tree motifs stretched in a darker shade of green, all on a white canvas. I had never seen that kind of stitching before. She described it as “cross-stitch”.

Sep 16, 2024 | mashallahnews.com | Layla Yammine

In one of the biggest private hospitals in the country, Hotel Dieu de France (HDF), Doctor Rami Bou Khalil spends much of his professional time negotiating with patients. There are so many who cannot afford the medications he prescribes to them that they come back to the clinic and ask for a change. Either in dosage, quantity, frequency or quality.