Rania Abouzeid

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Rania Abouzeid

In late February, Nawaf Salam, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, travelled to the country’s south to survey the devastation wrought by the recent war between Hezbollah and Israel. It was Salam’s second day on the job. He pledged to rebuild the area, which had incurred billions of dollars’ worth of damage. Salam also promised to strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces, as a means to assert the state’s authority in a place that for years had been under the sway of Hezbollah.

Jan 9, 2025 | aliciapatterson.org | Rania Abouzeid |Carrie Arnold |Josh Fine |Andrew Green

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Dec 8, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rania Abouzeid

For fifty-four years, generations of Syrians lived and died in a country that was colloquially known as Assad’s Syria. It was a place where children were taught that the walls had ears and that a misplaced word could lead to being disappeared. The regime had multiple branches of secret police, collectively called the Mukhabarat, which helped underpin its one-party, one-family, one-man rule.

Nov 27, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rania Abouzeid

In today’s newsletter, a dispatch from Lebanon, as displaced residents begin returning to their homes. And then:• A portrait of the artist as an Amazon reviewer• What is Google without Chrome? Hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect, at 4 A.M. on Wednesday, an Israeli drone was still buzzing over the Lebanese capital of Beirut, flying higher than usual, before finally disappearing.

Nov 21, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rania Abouzeid

The Lebanese town of Al-Nabi Chit, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, is considered a possible burial place of the prophet Seth, Adam and Eve’s lesser-known third son. The prophet’s remains are believed to be entombed in an elegant mosque with sandstone arches. Elsewhere in town, there is another, more elaborate dome-topped mausoleum, which houses the remains of Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi, one of the founders of Hezbollah, who was born here.