Damaged windshield of a vandalized police car by the anti-government protesters during a protest on the road leading to the Presidential palace in #Baabda, #Beirut, #Lebanon. (WAEL HAMZEH / EPA)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 10 – 16 September

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  • . September 16, 2020

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. Rumi

A woman wrapping herself in the Lebanese flag, holds up a noose as she takes part in a memorial demonstration to mark one month since #Beirut's massive explosion, #Lebanon. (Marwan Naamani / DPA)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 3 – 9 September

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  • . September 9, 2020

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel

Anti-government protesters carry a sign with pictures of unknown people hanging on the gallows during a protest in downtown #Beirut, #Lebanon. (IBRAHIM DIRANI / EPA)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 27 August – 2 September

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  • . September 2, 2020

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard

A #cat sits between rubble and debris of destroyed houses and buildings near the site of the deadly blast in the port of #Beirut, #Lebanon. (Hassan Ammar / AP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 20 – 26 August

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  • . August 26, 2020

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS. Gandhi

Karlen, the wife of 37-year-old fireman Charbel Karam, cries during the funeral procession of three firefighters from the same family in their hometown of #Qartaba, #Lebanon. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 13 – 19 August

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  • . August 19, 2020

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin

A noose and a gallows hanging from the Martyrs' Statue along with Lebanese national flags, at the Martyrs' Square in the centre of #Lebanon's capital #Beirut. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 6 -12 August

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  • . August 12, 2020

I have been heaven’s substitute to recompense the good – now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked! Alexandre Dumas

An injured man rests in a chair after a large explosion in #Beirut, #Lebanon. (Daniel Carde / Getty Images)
Lebanon POW

Lebanon POW: 30 July – 5 August

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  • . August 5, 2020

So tired you want to quit, then you get more tired, and forget to quit. Charles Bukowski