Madeline Edwards

‘There is no safety.' A mattress, an ashtray, and an Islamic calendar. A row of dirt-smeared clothes hanging neatly from wall hooks in a row, and a broken tile inscribed with the word “Allah”.

Unlike Muslim and Christian Palestinian citizens of Israel, Druze have been drafted into mandatory military service since the 1950s

Unlike Muslim and Christian Palestinian citizens of Israel, Druze have been drafted into mandatory military service since the 1950s

The religious commemoration, centred on a historic martyrdom, comes as Lebanon mourns its own death and displacement.

Madeline Edwards is a journalist and sewist who writes about rural life, offbeat histories and the environment.

How climate change is slowly eroding the millennia-old profession of transhumance in a mountainous, remote corner of the Levant

Migrant domestic workers who survived the Beirut explosion feel forgotten and traumatized.

Their parents grew up amid bombs, armed roadblocks, and brutal killing. Now, they are, too.

‘We are totally abandoned.' Among the mass exodus of people trying to flee deadly Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon are migrant domestic workers

The villagers of Ain Yaaqoub spent days identifying charred remains. They fear Israel was targeting displaced people.