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معبر | Maabar

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An on-going podcast series tracing the modern history of Lebanon through the stories of those who have lived it. Cutting across two genres—Oral History and Documentary—the cascade of stories paints a people-centered, multi-perspective view of what took place and the meanings they carry.

Maabar is a podcast created produced by Anthony Tawil and Cedric Kayem.

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Maabar معبر | Season 3 - Trailer

Episode 25

Monday, April 14, 2025 • Duration 01:30

New Season. April 24.

#newseason #season3 #april24 #podcast #civilwar #lebanon

Maabar معبر | S2 EP9 - نحنا منّا و فينا Inside Job - Season Finale

Episode 24

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 • Duration 28:49

In our final episode, we close the series with the Lebanese journalists who tell of their struggles to balance between their job of documenting, in words or in photographs, their own country’s destruction, and of their vulnerabilities, living with the aftershock of war, carrying the weight of their trauma through the years, over generations.

بالحلقة الأخيرة، منختم السلسة مع صحفيين لبنانيين بخبروا عن نضالن ليحققوا توازن بين شغلن بتوثيق الأحداث إما بكلمات أو صور، ودمار بلدن، وأوجه ضعفن، وعيش تداعيات الحرب، والتعامل مع صدمتن لسنوات وعبر الأجيال.

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Maabar معبر | S2 EP8 - Si Tu Ne Vois Plus Le Soleil بس تِسوَدّ الدني

Episode 23

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 • Duration 26:16

This penultimate episode of our 9-part special focuses on the reflection of the francophone journalists and their role during the war, the savagery of what the civil war entailed, its futility, lives lost in vain, and the living horror of those who fought and are left to confront the harsh reality of “normal” life afterward.

الحلقة ما قبل الأخيرة من السلسلة المؤلفة من تسع أجزاء بتركّز على تأملات الصحفيين المتحدثين بالفرنسية ودورن خلال الحرب، والوحشية يلّي ولّدتها الحرب الأهلية، وعبثيتا والأرواح يلّي فُقدت بدون جدوى، والرعب يلّي عاشوا يلّي حاربوا وانتركوا ليواجهوا الواقع المرّ الحياة "الطبيعية" بعد الحرب.

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Maabar معبر | S2 EP7 - It Catches Up With You – بتِرجَع بطِلْقَتك

Episode 22

Thursday, March 7, 2024 • Duration 44:37

In this episode, journalists burst the “rock and roll” image of war to expose its harsh and brutal reality where people act like vicious monsters. Packed with gripping tales and profound reflections on what this “war” meant in the grand scheme of things, the anglophones close in on their experience of the war.

بهيدي الحلقة، بيكسر الصحفيين صورة الحرب يلّي كلا "عنتريات"، ليكشفوا واقعها القاسي والعنيف، واقع بصيروا الناس فيه وحوش كاسرة. من خلال قصص مشوّقة وتأملات عميقة بمعنى "الحرب" ضمن السياق الأوسع، بخبرونا المتحدثين باللغة الإنكليزية عن تجربتن مع الحرب.

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Maabar معبر | S2 EP6 - Les Yeux Masqués مْغَطّيلْنا عيوننا

Episode 21

Monday, February 19, 2024 • Duration 25:21

French audio. For subtitles in Arabic and in English please listen to the episode on YouTube.

In this episode, we hear first hand what it was like to be held hostage in another country, another war; from being first lured by the exotic, exciting prospect of covering war in Lebanon, in Beirut (the Paris of the ME), French journalists find their position changed overnight, from suave and sophisticated foreign correspondents to vulnerable preys and naive pawns, at the mercy of their captors.

هيدي الحلقة، رح نسمح مباشرة شو يعني إنو الشخص يصير رهينة ببلد مختلف بالبداية، استُدرجوا الصحفيين الفرنسيين بفرصة حماسية وغريبة لتغطية الحرب بلبنان، وببيروت (أو باريس الشرق الأوسط)، بس تغيّر وضعن بين ليلة وضحاها، فتحولوا من مراسلين أجانب واثقين بنفسن ومتمرسين بعملن لبيادق ضعيفي وساذجة بلعبة الحرب ووقعوا تحت رحمة يلي أسروون

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Watch full Season 1:

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Follow “Maabar” on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maabarpodcast

Support "Maabar" on Patreon:

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Maabar معبر | S2 EP5 - مْقَطّعة أَوصالُه Fragmented

Episode 20

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 • Duration 27:37

In this chapter, we learn how a city severed and a country truncated becomes a maze that journalists must learn to navigate, to cross lines from one sector to the next, from East to West and West to East, to do their job and get their story out, all the while risking their life.

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For the list of credits:

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Watch full Season 1:

https://bit.ly/3HIyrqs

Follow “Maabar” on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maabarpodcast

Support "Maabar" on Patreon:

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A country severed into pieces, a city cut into halves at Khat al-Tamas, the green line. This Rubik’s cube of a country can never be solved, a futile, yet deadly struggle to place people into community, sectarian, and ideological boxes. You are part of it, whether you like it or not, because who they say you are, where you come from.

Maabar معبر | S2 EP4 - بس تعشقها… مشكلة Addicted

Episode 19

Thursday, February 1, 2024 • Duration 30:49

In this episode, we hear about how addictive war becomes for the journalists covering it as they describe the smell of fear and the thrill of existing on the fine line between life and death. For some, the only way to survive was to lose their mind and their senses while simultaneously being completely sane, 100% alert.

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You run on adrenaline, get high on risk, forget life. The war becomes your dealer, the story, the photograph your next fix.

And yet you cannot get high or drunk, you must be lucid, 100%, your senses on high alert. Your life depends on it. You are in tune with the rhythm of military fire, know the sound of an incoming or outgoing shell, know the time from launch to impact, know the number of shells that can be fired in a round to make an escape to your car in the time it takes to reload.

You’re both scared to death and exhilarated by fear; you drive fear, fear drives you. One minute you find yourself walking through minefields, the next, in the crosshairs of a sniper’s line of sight - from below and above, you’re exposed on all sides.

You’ve had too many close calls with death, too many brushes, felt the rush, rise to the thrill, and then it sinks in deep.

Maabar معبر | S2 EP3 - Do It For The Picture كرمال الصورة

Episode 18

Thursday, January 18, 2024 • Duration 39:27

We continue with foreign correspondents, this episode focusing on Anglophones, telling of their experience of coming to grips with the particularities of life during the Lebanese Civil War, and in the process, building bonds with a place that never seems to kneel.

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Maabar is created produced by Anthony Tawil Cedric Kayem.

Land in Beirut, find a footing, navigate the spider web of connections, decode who is who, who’s killing who, who’s friends with who, who’s married to who, who lives where, where do you need to be?

Baptism by fire, walk the streets, hunt for stories, fall into a story, live for the story, put your life on hold. In survival mode, get to the front of the line, fill in the media gaps, report the stories never told, or no one will remember.

Get the break, the hostage taker communique, before the other agencies do, resist becoming a spectator to hope for the 'bang bang' pictures; get material, visit, interview, witness, collect, then before the deadline, synthesize, write, telex. The next day: rinse and repeat.

Surreality becomes reality, party all night at Backstreet, picnic at Burj al Murr, knafi from Bohsali, laugh, meet the woman you will marry, eat incredible chicken, get home at 2am under shelling. You are living your invincible youth, nothing can get to you, but you are not from "here" - are you a spy? - who are you? Get out of here, narrow escape.

Maabar معبر | S2 EP2 - Je Suis Où Là? وين أنا؟

Episode 17

Thursday, January 18, 2024 • Duration 36:29

This episode shares the insights of foreign correspondents, mainly the francophones, and how they found themselves lured to Beirut on assignments to cover the war, while experiencing the upside of privileged life compared to their Lebanese colleagues.

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Hotels turned into beehives of foreign journalists; glamorous base camps, separate havens, with exclusivity and access to VIPs. Come to Beirut, they said. Chaos and lawlessness creates a sense of intense freedom, no rules.

The only thing understood is that you can’t understand anything - and - anything is possible in the absurdity of war.

In Lebanon 4 or 5 wars happening at the same time, in the same place, sometimes just one street away. Too detailed, too confusing. You might not know who is who on the street, or why they are fighting, but you know who gave the orders. The surrealist encounters, the contrasts, real life "Top Gun" characters; is this fiction or reality?

To get the scoop, you need the connection. The right person, the right number - do you have that number? Getting the images captured, getting the story through, getting to the wire, getting to the traveler, everything to get the news out. You yourself become a conduit to the outside world.

A life of extremes, of passion, of being only in the moment. You become attached, you fall in love, make love, make friends, make money, party all night - while others go fight, others die.

Maabar معبر | S2 EP1 - حرب ... و بلّشت And The War Erupted

Episode 16

Thursday, January 18, 2024 • Duration 49:06

In the first episode of our special 9 part-series on journalism during the Lebanese Civil War, we hear how Lebanese reporters and photographers suddenly found themselves covering a war, while gradually learning on the go and realizing how important their roles were in documenting what was happening.

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When you find that picking up a camera instead of a gun, shooting, not bullets, but pictures, is what rescued you from the worst of war.

And yet, you find yourself drawn to the front lines, to talk to people, to record, to capture the story.

Your life is contingent on luck, hunches, leads, waiting at the right spot, sneaking into the right room, being at the right place at the right time, and not getting killed.

The picture is taken twice, when you click the button and when you develop the photograph. Sometimes you don’t recognize what you see, as the picture develops, have I ever seen this man before?

Do I know this person? The story, the photograph, without them there is no news. As much as the news depends on photographers and journalists, the warring parties and politicians depend on photographers and the press for their stories to be told, voices to be heard, messages to be received. In the end, what purposes does war journalism serve?

A source of income, provide a point of view, show a perspective, collect testimony, give evidence, change public opinion, send a message, stop a war?

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