Lara Bitar
@larajbitar.bsky.social
media worker & organizer
🗞️ founding editor of Beirut-based publication @thepublicsource.bsky.social
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🗞️ founding editor of Beirut-based publication @thepublicsource.bsky.social
📃 Pitch me: http://thepublicsource.org/write
Israel's war on Lebanon has been out of int' headlines since the cessation of hostilities agreement in Nov 2024.
Since then, Israel has violated the agreement 100s of times and killed 100s of people.
Even less reported on is its systematic war on fishermen:
thepublicsource.org/fishermen-le...
Since then, Israel has violated the agreement 100s of times and killed 100s of people.
Even less reported on is its systematic war on fishermen:
thepublicsource.org/fishermen-le...
South Lebanon's Fishermen Fear the Sea
In Southern Lebanon, legacy fishermen lose their livelihoods among repeated Israeli abductions and attacks. The Lebanese state is doing little to help.
thepublicsource.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Israel's war on Lebanon has been out of int' headlines since the cessation of hostilities agreement in Nov 2024.
Since then, Israel has violated the agreement 100s of times and killed 100s of people.
Even less reported on is its systematic war on fishermen:
thepublicsource.org/fishermen-le...
Since then, Israel has violated the agreement 100s of times and killed 100s of people.
Even less reported on is its systematic war on fishermen:
thepublicsource.org/fishermen-le...
Reposted by Lara Bitar
In our latest Long Read, journalists Habib Battah (@habibbattah.bsky.social) and Christina Cavalcanti unpack the ethics of military embeds. ⬇️
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What the Media Won’t Tell You When It Embeds With the Military
When reporters embed with an invading army, do we get journalism or propaganda?
thepublicsource.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In our latest Long Read, journalists Habib Battah (@habibbattah.bsky.social) and Christina Cavalcanti unpack the ethics of military embeds. ⬇️
thepublicsource.org/media-ethics...
thepublicsource.org/media-ethics...
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In October 2024, journalists from some of the world’s largest and most influential news organizations — @wsj.com, @nytimes.com, BBC, & others—piled into armored vehicles & Jeeps. The Israeli military was about to take them for a ride: a guided tour of occupied southern Lebanese villages.
August 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In October 2024, journalists from some of the world’s largest and most influential news organizations — @wsj.com, @nytimes.com, BBC, & others—piled into armored vehicles & Jeeps. The Israeli military was about to take them for a ride: a guided tour of occupied southern Lebanese villages.
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Amidst the war, Iranian visual artist Golrokh Nafisi writes to Palestinian writer Mohammed el-Kurd about burying her 99-year-old grandmother - whose anti-colonialist convictions mirrored his grandmother Rifqa's resistance.
Read the letter here: https://thepublicsource.org/nafisi-letter-el-kurd
Read the letter here: https://thepublicsource.org/nafisi-letter-el-kurd
Popular Front of Grandmothers: A Letter from Golrokh Nafisi to Mohammed el-Kurd
Artist Golrokh Nafisi writes to Mohammed el-Kurd about their grandmothers’ shared anti-colonial defiance.
thepublicsource.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Amidst the war, Iranian visual artist Golrokh Nafisi writes to Palestinian writer Mohammed el-Kurd about burying her 99-year-old grandmother - whose anti-colonialist convictions mirrored his grandmother Rifqa's resistance.
Read the letter here: https://thepublicsource.org/nafisi-letter-el-kurd
Read the letter here: https://thepublicsource.org/nafisi-letter-el-kurd
Come work with me and a brilliant team of journalists and editors @thepublicsource.bsky.social
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📝 Passionate about bold, independent journalism in Lebanon and beyond?
The Public Source is hiring a Deputy Editor to help shape our editorial work and support our organizational growth.
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The Public Source is hiring a Deputy Editor to help shape our editorial work and support our organizational growth.
Apply today👉🏽 thepublicsource.org/join
#JournalismJobs #Lebanon #MediaJobs
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Come work with me and a brilliant team of journalists and editors @thepublicsource.bsky.social
#JournoJobs #MediaJobs #EditorJobs
#JournoJobs #MediaJobs #EditorJobs
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In this historical investigation, author Jo Kelcey traces a century of colonial repression and Palestinian defiance, documenting how the right to learn is central to the struggle for liberation.
🔗 Read the piece on The Public Source: thepublicsource.org/scholasticid...
🔗 Read the piece on The Public Source: thepublicsource.org/scholasticid...
Why Israel Bombs Schools
Israel’s war on Palestinian education is part of a larger strategy of control.
thepublicsource.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
In this historical investigation, author Jo Kelcey traces a century of colonial repression and Palestinian defiance, documenting how the right to learn is central to the struggle for liberation.
🔗 Read the piece on The Public Source: thepublicsource.org/scholasticid...
🔗 Read the piece on The Public Source: thepublicsource.org/scholasticid...
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As Lebanon marks 50 years since the war began on April 13, she traces how its legacy still shapes her present.
In Mounzer’s moving testimony, she reflects on life in the malja’, and growing up in the long shadow cast by Lebanon’s now 50-year old civil war.
In Mounzer’s moving testimony, she reflects on life in the malja’, and growing up in the long shadow cast by Lebanon’s now 50-year old civil war.
On Half a Century of Growing up as a Child of the War
What does it mean to be someone who lived through Lebanon's civil war?
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April 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
As Lebanon marks 50 years since the war began on April 13, she traces how its legacy still shapes her present.
In Mounzer’s moving testimony, she reflects on life in the malja’, and growing up in the long shadow cast by Lebanon’s now 50-year old civil war.
In Mounzer’s moving testimony, she reflects on life in the malja’, and growing up in the long shadow cast by Lebanon’s now 50-year old civil war.
One of the most important pieces we've recently published.
Part oral history devoted to preserving the memories of our elders, part storytelling, and ultimately a huge part of setting the historical record straight & passing it down—so that the old can die knowing that the young will never forget.
Part oral history devoted to preserving the memories of our elders, part storytelling, and ultimately a huge part of setting the historical record straight & passing it down—so that the old can die knowing that the young will never forget.
Read Fatima's story, along with those of other villagers from southern Lebanon and northern Palestine, as they share the bitter consequences of borders shifting arbitrarily beneath their feet.
"Stolen by a Map: The Haunting History of Lebanon's Lost Villages"
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"Stolen by a Map: The Haunting History of Lebanon's Lost Villages"
thepublicsource.org/lebanon-lost...
November 22, 2024 at 10:54 AM
One of the most important pieces we've recently published.
Part oral history devoted to preserving the memories of our elders, part storytelling, and ultimately a huge part of setting the historical record straight & passing it down—so that the old can die knowing that the young will never forget.
Part oral history devoted to preserving the memories of our elders, part storytelling, and ultimately a huge part of setting the historical record straight & passing it down—so that the old can die knowing that the young will never forget.