In May 2025, I was

In May 2025, I was granted official access to Beirut's Dahiyeh district through local journalistic networks and formal authorization channels.

Months after the ceasefire, Israeli airstrikes continued to strike areas of southern Beirut, leaving behind shattered buildings, displaced families, and neighborhoods suspended between destruction and routine life.

What drew me there was not the battlefield itself, but the people living in its aftermath.

A young girl sat on the back of her father's motorbike, gazing upward at the ruins of a building brought down by an airstrike. Men gathered quietly inside a small shop that few customers visited anymore, surrounded by streets and structures scarred by war. Elsewhere, residents walked past collapsed apartment blocks and piles of debris that had become part of the landscape of daily life.

These photographs are not primarily about military conflict or political factions. They are about memory, loss, endurance, and the quiet persistence of ordinary people after the world's attention has moved on.

The Dahiyeh project forms only one chapter of a larger reporting journey across Lebanon. Alongside the photographs, I am currently writing a long-form narrative feature based on months of field reporting, interviews, and firsthand observations throughout the country. From survivors of the Beirut port explosion to families living through economic collapse and recurring conflict, the work explores how individuals navigate uncertainty while holding onto dignity, hope, and a sense of home.

My practice sits at the intersection of journalism and documentary photography, focusing on human stories in places often reduced to headlines.