🎭 Culture Jul 15, 2026 · Jacob Russell

A City Bigger Than a Bomb: Dispatch from Beirut

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A City Bigger Than a Bomb: Dispatch from Beirut
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Maaysra, Lebanon. The site of an Israeli air strike that destroyed a house and killed fifteen people in the small village of Maaysra, north of Beirut. Hezbollah installed a poster blaming the United States for the deaths. Photograph by Jacob Russell.



In Lebanon the rains usually start around the end of October. There is little transition from summer. One day the weather is fine. The next great squalls come off the sea accompanied by thunder that shakes the walls. So we were cutting it close,

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