Lara Bitar
@larajbitar.bsky.social
media worker & organizer
🗞️ founding editor of Beirut-based publication @thepublicsource.bsky.social
📃 Pitch me: http://thepublicsource.org/write
🗞️ founding editor of Beirut-based publication @thepublicsource.bsky.social
📃 Pitch me: http://thepublicsource.org/write
And on farmers:
thepublicsource.org/lebanon-bord...
Read these two pieces to learn more about what's happening across southern Lebanon's front lines.
thepublicsource.org/lebanon-bord...
Read these two pieces to learn more about what's happening across southern Lebanon's front lines.
Farmers on the Front Line of the War Over Southern Lebanon’s Borderlands
Farmers in southern Lebanon return to scorched land, unexploded ordnance, and drone fire — determined to keep the land alive.
thepublicsource.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And on farmers:
thepublicsource.org/lebanon-bord...
Read these two pieces to learn more about what's happening across southern Lebanon's front lines.
thepublicsource.org/lebanon-bord...
Read these two pieces to learn more about what's happening across southern Lebanon's front lines.
Reposted by Lara Bitar
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...
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...
Reposted by Lara Bitar
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...
Reposted by Lara Bitar
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?
thepublicsource.org
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.