Layla Yammine

Beirut

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

How Israel is exploiting Lebanese sectarian rifts in its assault on Beirut and southern Lebanon

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.
Reporting From the Frontlines: Urgent Dispatch From Nabatieh

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.
Tatreez: How Palestinian women weave their cultural heritage

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”.
The struggle for mental health in Lebanon's multiple crises

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.
Liban. « Un niveau élevé d'effondrement psychologique »

Jul 16, 2024 | orientxxi.info | Layla Yammine

Dans l’un des plus grands hôpitaux privés du pays, l’Hôtel Dieu de France (HDF), le professeur Rami Bou Khalil passe une grande partie de son temps à négocier avec les patients. Ils sont si nombreux à ne pas pouvoir payer les médicaments qu’il leur prescrit qu’ils reviennent à la clinique pour demander un changement de traitement, que ce soit au niveau du dosage, de la quantité, de la fréquence ou de la qualité.
The struggle for mental health in Lebanon's multiple crises

Jun 27, 2024 | shorturl.at | 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.
From Flush to Crop: Akkar Farmers’ Desperate Use of Raw Sewage Water

May 22, 2024 | thepublicsource.org | Layla Yammine

This is Part 1 of a four-part series on water in Lebanon, covering its unsavory substitutes, its uses and misuses, the origin story of its crisis, and finally, its weaponization. It is near dusk in Machta Hammoud, a rural village in northern Lebanon near the Syrian border. As I squelch through a muddy field, I feel a sticky mix of human waste and damp soil clinging to my shoes. I am standing alone, trying to catch the day’s last rays of sun.
No way out: On civil marriage and religious authorities in Lebanon

Jan 11, 2024 | missingperspectives.com | Layla Yammine

I remember clearly, early on in my life, always saying that if I ever decided to get married, I would have a civil marriage not a religious one. My family would get really upset, but then say “she’ll get over it, she’s too young now to decide anyway.” I don’t know where I got the idea of a civil marriage, given the fact that I lived my entire life in a village, before I moved to the city at 17 years old. My background was always religious and had no space for “outside” thoughts.
Indefinitely Deferred: Dignified Retirement Inaccessible to Most

Jan 20, 2023 | thepublicsource.org | Layla Yammine

Strained Familial SupportMost older adults in Lebanon have historically relied on their adult children for economic support. According to a 2004 national survey, the incomes of Lebanese older adults were provided mainly by their children (74.8 percent), with a relatively small share derived from pension schemes. But now, younger adults are also suffering, barely able to make ends meet, let alone secure their parents’ livelihoods.