معبر | Maabar

What happens when war ends? How do you pick up your life, plan for the next day, the next week, the next month? What role do you play when your last fifteen years were all-encompassingly defined by the context of war? Who are you now? How do you make sens

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

How do you live a life shaped by sporadic destruction and fatal randomness? What happens when you adapt, start living instead of only surviving? When the absurdity of war becomes your new normal, sometimes even without you realizing it, something shifts.

How do you survive a war? How do you cope with violence surrounding you from all sides? What if you find yourself in front of the barrel of the gun, the target itself? Or what if you find yourself aiming your gun, being the one pulling the trigger? What h

“People either live or die...but disappear?”When your loved ones leave the house one day or are taken right in front of your eyes not knowing whether they'll return or not, how does one cope? The panic of trying to find traces of where they might be,

When we hear about war, we think of battles and gunfire. But war never remains on the frontlines. It spills over into all aspects of every day life. So how do you deal with the precariousness of the situation? When militias start rounding people up in th

War is an abstract concept until the moment your neighbours start amassing weapons and sandbagging their buildings and checkpoints line the streets. Tensions are high, divides are deep and anxieties spread far across. Clashes are no longer isolated incide

When regions are cut off from one another, and checkpoints and snipers slice the country into hundreds of little pieces, how do you get from one place to another? How do you get to work, see your family, go about your life? What if, after dinner, you get

With telephone lines down, roads blocked and snipers monitoring all movement, how did our parents stay in touch -- with friends, family and each other? How did they update and reassure each other about the situation and their whereabouts? For many, the wa

All day people are gathered in front of the radio, the jingle starts, the news comes on. The relief to finally have news of what is happening today.There are also people gathered behind the radio, living for the news, trying not do die while making the ne