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, three seasons have featured wartime life, frontline journalism, and first responders, uncovering untold stories of survival, loss, and the lasting impact of war.
Maabar is a podcast created produced by Anthony Tawil and Cedric Kayem.
For more information:
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, three seasons have featured wartime life, frontline journalism, and first responders, uncovering untold stories of survival, loss, and the lasting impact of war.
Maabar is a podcast created produced by Anthony Tawil and Cedric Kayem.
For more information:
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Disclaimer: This episode contains heavy language and strong depictions of violence that may be triggering to some. Please be advised.
When all is said and done, war is ugly. War kills, maims, and destroys life. Its pain lives on buried inside, in the hearts, minds, and souls of those it afflicts; escaping death, not getting killed, becomes unbearable, cursed by the despair of surviving, of living with surviving and carrying grief so deeply that it turns you inside out; the impossibility of life moving forward, is betrayed by the brutal and inexorable march of time, and life inevitably moving forward. War is not full of tragedies; war is tragedy.
These are but a few stories telling us how it plays out, in its cruel and unrelenting dimensions, in vivid detail that conjures up imagery difficult for most to swallow. We owe it to the tellers of these stories, and to the many more whose stories remain untold, not to shut our eyes and cover our ears, but see, listen, and imagine war for what it is.
Maabar is a podcast created produced by Anthony Tawil and Cedric Kayem, in partnership with forumZFD.
For the full list of credits, visit www.maabarpodcast.com/credits
تنصل: بتحتوي هالحلقة على عبارات قاسية ومشاهد عنف فيها تستفزّ المشاهدين. الرجاء الانتباه.
من بعد كل يلّي انقال وانعمل، الحرب بتبقى بشعة. الحرب بتقتل، بتشوّه، وبتدمّر الحياة. وجع الحرب بضلّ عايش ولَو مدفون جوّات قلوب، عقول وأرواح يلّي عانوا منها. النجاة من الموت ومن القتل، بصير شيء ما بينْحَمل، ملعون بيأس إنّك بعدك عايش، إنّك عايش مع عبئ فكرة النجاة وحمل الحداد يلّي بيقلبك فوقاني تحتاني؛ استحالة إنّك تستمرّ عم تواجه خيانة وقساوة مسيرة الوقت، والحياة حتميًّا عم بتكمّل. الحرب مش مليانة مآسي، الحرب مأساة. هودي منّن إلّا شوية قصص بخبرّونا كيف عم تنلعب، بقساوتها ووحشيّتها، بتفاصيل فجّة بتستحضر صور قاسية، وصعبة عالأكتريّة إنها تِنبلَع. كرمال كلّ يلّي حكيوا هالقصص، وكلّ يلّي عندن قصص ما انحكت، مش مفروض نسكّر عيوننا ونطمّش دينينا. وبالعكس، نقشع، نسمع ونتخايل الحرب على ما هي عليه.
معبر من إنتاج وإعداد انطوني الطويل وسيدريك قيّم، بالشراكة مع
forumZFD.
للحصول على قائمة الشكر الكاملة ، زوروا موقعنا على
www.maabarpodcast.com/credits