Madeline Edwards

Journalisting, knitting and sewing in Lebanon🐌 Eyes on environment, rural life, offbeat 📝 My recent reporting:

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

Khijou and Samar al-Khateeb are two sisters from the Moadhamiyet al-Sham suburb of Damascus.

Between them are more than three years of torture and arbitrary detainment in Assad's prison network, and multiple loved ones lost to prison:
@AJEnglish https://t.co/a4UdOPmLdv

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

@Janetabouelias @hannadavis341 @inkstickmedia thank you for sharing ☀️

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

I'll never forget the memory of landing in Beirut in 2024 with multiple plumes of black smoke coming out of Dahieh buildings just beneath the window :/

[The Associated Press @AP]

A commercial airplane was seen taking off in Beirut as Israeli airstrikes hit the Lebanese capital.

[Hassan I. Hassan @hxhassan]

Lebanon's dating scene 1) niche dating apps filter matches by specific political parties 2) offline "blind art dates" separated by wooden boards 3) interfaith couples announce romance only after the wedding 4) packed speed-dating parties.

By @MEdwardsJO https://t.co/HAXPUu8Sld

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

Excellent piece by @MEdwardsJO about love & dating in Lebanon amid multiple crises https://t.co/FcD9a6OHli

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

8. 🧵As the fate of Syria’s minorities continues to make headlines, this essay by @MEdwardsJO offers a firsthand account from Sweida, the Druze-majority province, as it adjusts to a dramatically changed political landscape.
https://t.co/7UOsRj5F4f

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

NEW: In Akkar, northern Lebanon, Sufism thrives while it fades elsewhere. Villages keep centuries-old “zikr” prayer ceremonies alive, blending mysticism & joy. @MEdwardsJO reports from the celebrations of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday for @newlinesmag

https://t.co/ZlU2ZKMPtZ

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

@NewPalmyraOrg @joaosousa it is in Baalbek, Lebanon :)

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

Baalbeck's famed Palmyra Hotel once buzzed with royalty and pop stars.

Those days are long past. Now there are state power cuts and a historic economic crisis.

The hotel has one potential life raft: solar energy. My latest, with 📸by @joaosousa: https://t.co/DJwJ4xJbsD

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

Current Top Read:
From Tyre’s bomb-scarred banana fields to Tripoli’s Ottoman clock tower, @MEdwardsJO rode the length of Lebanon on its first new public transit system in decades. She recounts the experience for @newlinesmag, with photos by João Sousa. https://t.co/wjiLQKVblr

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

NEW: From Tyre’s bomb-scarred banana fields to Tripoli’s Ottoman clock tower, @MEdwardsJO rode the length of Lebanon on its first new public transit system in decades. She recounts the experience for @newlinesmag, with photos by João Sousa.

https://t.co/wjiLQKVblr

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

@mccoin_haley <3

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

NEW: In Lebanon's Druze mountains, belief in reincarnation intertwines with the trauma of the country’s civil war, which began 50 years ago. @MEdwardsJO writes about memory, loss and rebirth for @newlinesmag.

https://t.co/jU9F6KN4sr

[Ola Salem @Ola_Salem]

In Lebanon's Druze mountains, belief in reincarnation intertwines with the trauma of the country’s civil war.

A fascinating piece by @MEdwardsJO @newlinesmag. https://t.co/h4KxrzRHNK

[Mohammad El Sahily - محمد الساحلي @moesahily]

Lebanon today is awash with hope. The combined efforts of the opposition have brought to power a president and prime minister who are bent on implementing reforms. Long road ahead, but this is nothing short of a tsunami, and a victory for October 17.

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

@MatthieuKaram ohh did you get to see the convoy from the office?

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

Children, reduced to bits of torn body parts in cardboard boxes:

[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

The remains of four family members, including a newborn daughter and a teenage boy, were retrieved following an early morning Israeli strike on a house in Deir El-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Fragments of their bodies were gathered into boxes and bags and brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir El-Balah.

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

@matnashed @AJEnglish 🙏🌻

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

Yet the Assad regime's prison network was uniquely cruel to women, sisters Khijou and Samar told me from their home near Damascus.

“As female detainees, as mothers of detainees, as wives of detainees, we have no forgiveness."
@AJEnglish
https://t.co/a4UdOPmLdv

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

Khijou and Samar al-Khateeb are two sisters from the Moadhamiyet al-Sham suburb of Damascus.

Between them are more than three years of torture and arbitrary detainment in Assad's prison network, and multiple loved ones lost to prison:
@AJEnglish https://t.co/a4UdOPmLdv

[Madeline Edwards @MEdwardsJO]

I found only one poster for a missing imprisoned woman among thousands of posters of men on my recent visit to Damascus, where families are posting pictures of their loved ones who went missing (or were killed) in Assad's prisons
@AJEnglish
https://t.co/a4UdOPmLdv