Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا

Beirut-based Political Economist & Author • First book: “And So We Drive On”• Comms Manager @ifi_aub • Tweeting in my personal capacity •

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

“And So We Drive On: Short Stories” Out Now https://t.co/rC1rxW1dsT

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴The Israeli army issues a vague threat to forcibly displace people in the Christian quarter of Tyre, Lebanon

This is a blatant lie to forcibly displace the residents of the Christian quarter in Tyre. I have been staying in this area since I was forcibly displaced from my apartment in Tyre.

The area is full of displaced people sleeping in their cars and in tents on the beach.

To the Christians all over the world: do you understand now that Israel is not your friend? If you didn’t learn during the genocide in Gaza, do you get it now?

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

…the sound of genocide (in all its variations) and impunity on a beautiful #Beirut morning.

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Stop Israel’s ETHNOCIDE in South Lebanon.

[Green Southerners الجنوبيون الخضر @GreenSoutherns]

Tyre - a 5,000-year-old Phoenician city-kingdom and home to UNESCO World Heritage sites - is facing systematic destruction under relentless Israeli airstrikes.

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Welcome to Beirut

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

🔊We have an opening at the Institute for those interested or who know someone who may be. For more details and application requirements, check the official announcement below 👇

[IFI at AUB @ifi_aub]

🚨 Our Institute is looking to hire a Program Manager for the Sustainability and Inclusive Development Cluster. The Program Manager will manage and oversee all research activities within one of the Institute’s core policy clusters, aiming to generate knowledge and influence policy on the human, social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability and inclusive development.

🗓️ Application Deadline: 13 June 2026 | 12:00 AM
For more details, requirements, and to apply, click here: https://t.co/DlO9g7Ck8j

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

How the Lebanese explain inflation 📈

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Whitewashing Lebanese Christians north of the Litani: hi, keefkon, ca va? 🙋🏻‍♀️

[Clash Report @clashreport]

📸 Israeli soldier desecrating a Virgin Mary statue by placing a cigarette in its mouth in southern Lebanon.

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

The yearly remembrance and commemoration of Lebanon’s Martyrs’ Days

#neverforget

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Today is Martyrs' Day in Lebanon, once an official holiday, long cancelled by a petty politician.

Not everyone who dies is a martyr. Take a moment to remember & honor those who sacrificed for this country, and journalists who sacrificed in pursuit of free speech. #NeverForget

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

B for Beirut,
B for beauty,
B for beast.

📍Beirut

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Never forget
Never forgive

#August4 #Beirut

[Megaphone News English @MegaphoneNewsEN]

Families of the Beirut port explosion victims held their monthly vigil on Monday, May 4, calling on the Cassation Courts to rule on the cases pending before them against Judge Tarek Bitar. In a statement, the families condemned any attempt to “turn the Beirut port case into a forgotten file, reduce the victims' blood to mere formalities, or hold justice hostage to political calculations.”

They also called for lifting “all immunities protecting those involved, whoever they may be, and for the full truth to be revealed,” and condemned the international community’s silence over the crime, describing it as “indirect complicity in covering up the truth.”

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Hamra’s murals are a few of the nicest things still standing in the neighborhood.

#Beirut

[Jamil Mouawad @JamilMouawad]

Since the 40s, the South of Lebanon has been conceived as a battlefield, both in times of war and in times of peace.

In the aftermath of the July 2006 war, reconstruction itself has been framed as a form of victory over Israel… a reality
Israel evidently struggled to accept…. Hence, the systematic destruction of Southern villages….

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israeli invaders crushed an ambulance with a bulldozer in South Lebanon, then posted it online like a trophy.

Israel literally celebrates its war crimes publicly.

No shame. No accountability. No consequences.

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

U.S. domestic Trumpian politics went from “build that wall” to “build that ballroom.”

Never a dull moment 🪩

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Day 10 of the ceasefire…

This ends my coverage of the first ten days of the so-called ceasefire, which as someone out there said, means that Lebanon ceases and Israel continues fire…

[LBCI Lebanon News @LBCI_NEWS]

الجيش الاسرائيلي واصل عمليات الهدم والتخريب في بلدة دبل الحدودية حيث اقدم على جرف الواح الطاقات الشمسية التي تغذي البلدة بالكهرباء ومحطة المياه اضافة إلى بعض المنازل والطرقات وأشجار الزيتون

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Day 9 of the ceasefire…

[Megaphone News English @MegaphoneNewsEN]

Satellite images taken on April 14 show widespread devastation in the center of Bint Jbeil, suggesting burnings and systematic destruction. By April 23, the images show that what remained of buildings and structures had been completely razed to the ground.

Analysis by CNN found that hundreds of buildings, most of them residential homes, were either completely destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. Images and videos captured after the ceasefire announcement on April 16 also show that demolition continued, with bulldozers and armored vehicles operating in the area.

Recently published images indicate that Israel has adopted a scorched-earth policy in southern Lebanon, following a pattern similar to what occurred in the Gaza Strip, including the targeting of vital infrastructure and healthcare facilities, as well as journalists.

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Day 8 of the ceasefire…

[L'Orient Today @lorienttoday]

🚨 Massive Israeli explosions in the town of Khiam, in southern Lebanon

(Credit: Video sent to our correspondent)

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Day 7 of the ceasefire…

[Megaphone News English @MegaphoneNewsEN]

On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces killed Amal Khalil, Al-Akhbar’s correspondent in South Lebanon, in a direct strike in the village of Tayri in the Bint Jbeil district. How was the assassination carried out, and why did they want to silence “the South’s correspondent”?

[Marina Chamma | مارينا شمّا @eyeontheeast]

Day 6 of the ceasefire…

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

Our colleague Amal Khalil, a brave reporter who has been covering Israeli attacks on Lebanon for the past years was targeted along another colleague Zeinab Faraj while doing their job in south Lebanon. Emergency services succeeded in rescuing Zeinab with injuries along with two casualties. Amal is still under rubble, the Red Cross tried to get closer, yet another Israeli attack pushed them back.