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The Lebanese Civil War, 50 Years Later

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From the book "What's Ours." Beirut, Lebanon. October 18, 2019. © Myriam Boulos / Magnum Photos
From the book "What's Ours." Beirut, Lebanon. October 19, 2019. © Myriam Boulos / Magnum Photos
From the book "What's Ours." Beirut, Lebanon. August 6, 2020. © Myriam Boulos / Magnum Photos
The Green Line demarcation zone between Christian East and Muslim West Beirut during the Civil War. Beirut, Lebanon. 1982. © Abbas / Magnum Photos
Civil War. Swinging their Soviet made weapons, a group of Chamounist militiamen block the crossroads into the Christian sector of Achrafieh. East Beirut, Lebanon. 1978. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum (...)
A huge cross hovers above Maronite priests and Phalange militia at a requiem mass in the open, dedicated to President-elect Bechir Gemayel, killed in an explosion planned by Syrian secret services. (...)
A young man stands in his bombed apartment. Achrafieh district, East Beirut, Lebanon. 1978. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos
Women and children take refuge in an underground shelter, below the building where they live, in the Christian sector of the city. Achrafieh district, East Beirut, Lebanon. 1978. © Raymond Depardon (...)
Civil War. A Christian Phalangist. Beirut, Lebanon. 1978. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos
Wadi Abou Jémil district. Beirut, Lebanon. 1991. © René Burri / Magnum Photos
El Ahdab Avenue. Beirut, Lebanon. 1991. © René Burri / Magnum Photos
A young man, amputated of both legs during the Civil War, is fitted with an artificial leg. Beirut, Lebanon. 1977. © Abbas / Magnum Photos
Boy with gun. Palestinian demonstration in the Beddawi refugee camp. Beirut, Lebanon. October, 1983. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos
Beirut, Lebanon. 1984. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos
A young Palestinian boy at the Tripoli front. Beirut, Lebanon. November 1983. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos
A man and a young fighter walk the streets of Beddawi, a Palestinian refugee camp. Beirut, Lebanon. November 1983. © Eli Reed / Magnum Photos
Surrounded by bodyguards and PLO fighters, Yasser Arafat heads for the port of Beirut to embark for Greece. August 27, 1982. © Gilles Peress / Magnum Photos
A Palestinian soldier bids farewell to a relative at the Beirut harbor as PLO troops depart for Cyprus. During the Lebanon War of 1982, Arafat and PLO forces were trapped in Beirut as Israeli Defen (...)
Publicity on a wall for “Revolt In The South,” a Shi’ite film showing in west Beirut. Beirut. 1985. © Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos
Amal militia waiting for the arrival of prisoners released by the Israelis from a camp in south Lebanon. 1985. © Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos
On September 16, 1982, members of the Kataeb Lebanese Phalangist militia attacked the Palestinian Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, massacring at least 1,500 people. Palestinian families mourn relat (...)
Young children playing in the wrecked vehicles near the Sabra and Chantila Camp. Beirut, Lebanon. 1983. © Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos