معبر | Maabar
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معبر | Maabar
Maabar is a documentary podcast exploring lived experiences of Lebanon’s complicated history with a focus on the Civil War (1975-1990). Meaning both barrier and crossing in Arabic, maabar captures the tension between a fractured past and a wary present, yearning for a hopeful future. Since 2022, thr...
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Maabar معبر | S3 EP6 - خشخاشة Khéshkhashé. Season 3 Finale.
When saving lives becomes routine, death is no longer a stranger. First responders face unclaimed bodies, mass graves, and makeshift morgues – negotia...
Maabar معبر | S3 EP5 - معموديّة النار Baptism of Fire.
Outside the hospital, thousands triaged on the pavement, inside they sleep on their side to make room. War is the ultimate teacher for surgeons, who n...
S3 EP4 - كدشنا الأرض | Hit The Deck.
Under relentless bombardment – ambulances hit, hospitals overflowing, shrapnel raining from 32,000 shells – blood is everywhere. Amid the chaos, the c...
S3 EP3 - يا بتقيمه، يا بتموت أنت | Treat him, or die.
Operating under the gun, doctors were threatened by drugged militants, forced to treat fighters, even kidnapped to treat a warlord’s mother. With othe...
S3 EP2 - Dr. Man'oucheh | د. منقوشة
In the midst of their emergency response, medics and doctors sometimes had to scramble to tend to their own needs, with even food being scarce and not...
S3 EP1 - How It Started | هيك قلّعنا
Driven only by duty, first responders leap into the cauldron of war. Barely prepared and minimally trained, but always resourceful, they are stripped...
Season 3 - Trailer
New Season. April 24.
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S2 EP9 - Inside Job | نحنا منّا و فينا
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 wo...
S2 EP8 - Si Tu Ne Vois Plus Le Soleil | بس تِسوَدّ الدني
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...
S2 EP7 - It Catches Up With You | بتِرجَع بطِلْقَتك
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. Pac...
S2 EP6 - Les Yeux Masqués | مْغَطّيلْنا عيوننا
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...
S2 EP5 - Fragmented | مْقَطّعة أَوصالُه
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 s...
S2 EP4 - Addicted | بس تعشقها… مشكلة
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...
S2 EP3 - Do It For The Picture | كرمال الصورة
We continue with foreign correspondents, this episode focusing on Anglophones, telling of their experience of coming to grips with the particularities...
S2 EP2 - Je Suis Où Là? | وين أنا؟
This episode shares the insights of foreign correspondents, mainly the francophones, and how they found themselves lured to Beirut on assignments to c...
S2 EP1 - And The War Erupted حرب ... و بلّشت
In the first episode of our special 9 part-series on journalism during the Lebanese Civil War, we hear how Lebanese reporters and photographers sudden...
S1 EP12 - Maabar | معبر
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What happens when war ends? How do you pick up your life, plan for the next day, the next week, the n...
S1 EP11 - One After The Other | واحد ورا الثاني
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Disclaimer: This episode contains heavy language and strong depictions of violence that may be triggering to...
S1 EP10 - Folie | جنون
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How do you live a life shaped by sporadic destruction and fatal randomness? What happens when you adapt, sta...
S1 EP9 - Survival | البقاء
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How do you survive a war? How do you cope with violence surrounding you from all sides? What if you find you...
S1 EP8 - Branch 235 | فرع ٢٣٥
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“People either live or die...but disappear?” When your loved ones leave the house one day or are taken right...
S1 EP7 - Bow or Leave | يا برضخ، يا بفلّ
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When we hear about war, we think of battles and gunfire. But war never remains on the frontlines. It spills...
S1 EP6 - Folding Stock | أخمص حديدي
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War is an abstract concept until the moment your neighbours start amassing weapons and sandbagging their bui...
S1 EP5 - Where from, where to? | من وين, لوين؟
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When regions are cut off from one another, and checkpoints and snipers slice the country into hundreds of li...
S1 EP4 - Citizen Band | سيتيزن باند
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With telephone lines down, roads blocked and snipers monitoring all movement, how did our parents stay in to...
S1 EP3 - A Fragrant Welcome | تحية عطرة
All day people are gathered in front of the radio, the jingle starts, the news comes on.
The relief to finally have news of what is happe...
S1 EP2 - Mère Gabrielle | مير غبريال
“Can the fighting start already so school can close?”
For children, school is meant to serve as a safe space, like a second home, where t...
S1 EP1 - Cops & Robbers | عسكر وحرامية
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"A child hears about death and destruction, of course that instills fear”.
How does a child und...
Prologue | مقدمة
Maabar is a 12-part podcast series on the Lebanese Civil War, cutting across two genres – Oral History and Documentary – it dives into the layers of w...
Season Trailer | A Podcast Series on the Lebanese Civil War
Tapping into the memory of a country, Maabar is a podcast series retracing the Lebanese Civil War through the memories and stories of the people who l...