S3 EP4 - كدشنا الأرض | Hit The Deck.

Under relentless bombardment – ambulances hit, hospitals overflowing, shrapnel raining from 32,000 shells – blood is everywhere. Amid the chaos, the cry of an abandoned newborn in the maternity ward becomes a ray of light, reminding first responders of their calling, their duty, and their purpose as unknown fighters from every walk of life.  تحت قصف ما بيوقف – سيارات إسعاف بتنضرب، ومستشفيات بتفوّل، وشظايا بتشتّي من 32 ألف قذيفة – الدم للركب. وبهالفوضى، صوت مولود جديد متروك بقسم الولادة بيصير فسحة أمل، بيذكّر المُسعفين ليش هّني هون، وشو واجبن، وشو هدفن، كمقاتلين مجهولين، جايين من خلفيّات متنوعة. If you enjoy Maabar, please like, subscribe and support us on Patreon:https://patreon.com/maabar

Operating under the gun, doctors were threatened by drugged militants, forced to treat fighters, even kidnapped to treat a warlord’s mother. With other first responders, they protected identities, changed names, stole fuel to keep hospitals and clinics running, they even sedated fighters to prevent a bloodbath. Silent guardian angels, they cheated death, for the sake of life.تحت تهديد السلاح، الأطباء كانوا مهدّدين من قبل مسلّحين مَخدّرين، ومفروض عليهن يطبّبوا مقاتلين، أو حتّى انخطفوا ليعالِجوا أمّ زعيم حرب. هنّي ومُسعفين غيرهن، خبّوا الهويات، وغيّروا أسامي، وسرقوا بنزين ليخلّوا المستشفيات والمراكز شغّالة، وحتّى خدّروا مقاتلين ليمنعوا مجزرة. كانوا ملاك حارس بصمت، وخدعوا الموت ليحافظوا على الحياةIf you enjoy Maabar, please like, subscribe and support us on Patreon:https://patreon.com/maabar

In the midst of their emergency response, medics and doctors sometimes had to scramble to tend to their own needs, with even food being scarce and not easy to secure. Yet their dedication and selflessness never wavered in the face of the tragedies they had to tend to and improvise their way out of.

Driven only by duty, first responders leap into the cauldron of war. Barely prepared and minimally trained, but always resourceful, they are stripped of politics and religion. On the ground, from mopping blood to building field hospitals, they save lives, confront horrors, and hold onto hope in humanity. If you enjoy Maabar, support us on Patreon:patreon.com/maabarmaabarpodcast.com

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In our final episode, we close the series with the Lebanese journalists who tell of their struggles to balance between their job of documenting, in words or in photographs, their own country’s destruction, and of their vulnerabilities, living with the aftershock of war, carrying the weight of their trauma through the years, over generations.بالحلقة الأخيرة، منختم السلسة مع صحفيين لبنانيين بخبروا عن نضالن ليحققوا توازن بين شغلن بتوثيق الأحداث إما بكلمات أو صور، ودمار بلدن، وأوجه ضعفن، وعيش تداعيات الحرب، والتعامل مع صدمتن لسنوات وعبر الأجيال.--------------------------------------------------------------------All images are property of their owners and are used with permission.If you enjoy our content please Like and Subscribe.Support "Maabar" on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/MaabarFor the list of credits:https://www.maabarpodcast.comSubscribe to the "Maabar" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maabar/Watch full Season 1:https://bit.ly/3HIyrqsFollow “Maabar” on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maabarpodcast--------------------------------------------------------------------

This penultimate episode of our 9-part special focuses on the reflection of the francophone journalists and their role during the war, the savagery of what the civil war entailed, its futility, lives lost in vain, and the living horror of those who fought and are left to confront the harsh reality of “normal” life afterward.الحلقة ما قبل الأخيرة من السلسلة المؤلفة من تسع أجزاء بتركّز على تأملات الصحفيين المتحدثين بالفرنسية ودورن خلال الحرب، والوحشية يلّي ولّدتها الحرب الأهلية، وعبثيتا والأرواح يلّي فُقدت بدون جدوى، والرعب يلّي عاشوا يلّي حاربوا وانتركوا ليواجهوا الواقع المرّ الحياة "الطبيعية" بعد الحرب.-------------------------------------------------------------------All images are property of their owners and are used with permission.If you enjoy our content please Like and Subscribe.For the list of credits:https://www.maabarpodcast.comSubscribe to the "Maabar" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maabar/Watch full Season 1:https://bit.ly/3HIyrqsFollow “Maabar” on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maabarpodcast

In this episode, journalists burst the “rock and roll” image of war to expose its harsh and brutal reality where people act like vicious monsters. Packed with gripping tales and profound reflections on what this “war” meant in the grand scheme of things, the anglophones close in on their experience of the war.بهيدي الحلقة، بيكسر الصحفيين صورة الحرب يلّي كلا "عنتريات"، ليكشفوا واقعها القاسي والعنيف، واقع بصيروا الناس فيه وحوش كاسرة. من خلال قصص مشوّقة وتأملات عميقة بمعنى "الحرب" ضمن السياق الأوسع، بخبرونا المتحدثين باللغة الإنكليزية عن تجربتن مع الحرب.-------------------------------------------------------------------All images are property of their owners and are used with permission.If you enjoy our content please Like and Subscribe.For the list of credits: https://www.maabarpodcast.comSubscribe to the "Maabar" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maabar/Watch full Season 1:https://bit.ly/3HIyrqsSupport "Maabar" on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/Maabar--------------------------------------------------------------------

French audio. For subtitles in Arabic and in English please listen to the episode on YouTube.In this episode, we hear first hand what it was like to be held hostage in another country, another war; from being first lured by the exotic, exciting prospect of covering war in Lebanon, in Beirut (the Paris of the ME), French journalists find their position changed overnight, from suave and sophisticated foreign correspondents to vulnerable preys and naive pawns, at the mercy of their captors.هيدي الحلقة، رح نسمح مباشرة شو يعني إنو الشخص يصير رهينة ببلد مختلف بالبداية، استُدرجوا الصحفيين الفرنسيين بفرصة حماسية وغريبة لتغطية الحرب بلبنان، وببيروت (أو باريس الشرق الأوسط)، بس تغيّر وضعن بين ليلة وضحاها، فتحولوا من مراسلين أجانب واثقين بنفسن ومتمرسين بعملن لبيادق ضعيفي وساذجة بلعبة الحرب ووقعوا تحت رحمة يلي أسروون------------------------------------------------------All images are property of their owners and are used with permission.If you enjoy our content please Like and Subscribe.For the list of credits:https://www.maabarpodcast.comSubscribe to the "Maabar" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maabar/Watch full Season 1:https://bit.ly/3HIyrqsFollow “Maabar” on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maabarpodcastSupport "Maabar" on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/Maabar------------------------------------------------------

In this chapter, we learn how a city severed and a country truncated becomes a maze that journalists must learn to navigate, to cross lines from one sector to the next, from East to West and West to East, to do their job and get their story out, all the while risking their life.------------------------------------------------------All images are property of their owners and are used with permission.If you enjoy our content please Like and Subscribe.For the list of credits:https://www.maabarpodcast.comSubscribe to the "Maabar" YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/@maabar/Watch full Season 1:https://bit.ly/3HIyrqsFollow “Maabar” on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maabarpodcastSupport "Maabar" on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/Maabar-------------------------------A country severed into pieces, a city cut into halves at Khat al-Tamas, the green line. This Rubik’s cube of a country can never be solved, a futile, yet deadly struggle to place people into community, sectarian, and ideological boxes. You are part of it, whether you like it or not, because who they say you are, where you come from.To others off limits, but to you, a matter of fact, you must cross the line to bear witness to what’s happening and how people live on the "other" side(s). You know the checkpoints networks like the back of your hand. Know which line you can cross when, know the handlers and their moods, map your route depending on who is at which post when. Today, it’s Khaldeh to Kfarshima, tomorrow, it’s Babir to Mathaf, lines shift all the time, depending on what happened that morning, what orders come in, who’s in the car with you, what allegiances switch, what seemed secure a minute ago, is now off the table.To survive, you can't get caught on the wrong side - whatever side that may be. You build networks, communities of fellow journalists, find fraternities and sororities so that no matter what your religion, your accent, your birthplace, or your press card, crossings can be crossed. You build a support system, meet regularly, break the idea of "the other," become more than colleagues, friends who help get each other out of the cross fire and from crossing the line between life and death.