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Maabar

Maabar is a documentary podcast exploring lived experiences of Lebanon’s complicated history with a focus on the Civil War (1975-1990). Meaning both barrier and crossing in Arabic, maabar captures the tension between a fractured past and a wary present, yearning for a hopeful future. Since 2022, three seasons have featured wartime life, frontline journalism, and first responders, uncovering untold stories of survival, loss, and the lasting impact of war.

Maabar is a podcast created produced by Anthony Tawil and Cedric Kayem.
 

For more information:

www.maabarpodcast.com

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  • S3 · E6
    Jun 13, 2025 · 31 min

    Maabar معبر | S3 EP6 - خشخاشة Khéshkhashé. Season 3 Finale.

    <p>When saving lives becomes routine, death is no longer a stranger. First responders face unclaimed bodies, mass graves, and makeshift morgues – negotiating prisoner exchanges, testing the limits of international law. And what happens at war's end, how

  • S3 · E5
    Jun 12, 2025 · 31 min

    Maabar معبر | S3 EP5 - معموديّة النار Baptism of Fire.

    <p>Outside the hospital, thousands triaged on the pavement, inside they sleep on their side to make room. War is the ultimate teacher for surgeons, who never go home – &nbsp;learning on the go, treating everything from vascular trauma to burn, finding l

  • S3 · E4
    May 16, 2025 · 35 min

    S3 EP4 - كدشنا الأرض | Hit The Deck.

    <p>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 responder

  • S3 · E2
    May 1, 2025 · 29 min

    S3 EP2 - Dr. Man'oucheh | د. منقوشة

    <p>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

  • S3 · E1
    Apr 24, 2025 · 25 min

    S3 EP1 - How It Started | هيك قلّعنا

    <p>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 liv

  • #25
    Apr 14, 2025 · 1 min

    Season 3 - Trailer

    <p>New Season. April 24.<br><br>#newseason #season3 #april24 #podcast #civilwar #lebanon</p>

  • S2 · E9
    Mar 26, 2024 · 28 min

    S2 EP9 - Inside Job | نحنا منّا و فينا

    <p><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">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

  • S2 · E8
    Mar 13, 2024 · 26 min

    S2 EP8 - Si Tu Ne Vois Plus Le Soleil | بس تِسوَدّ الدني

    <p><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">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

  • S2 · E7
    Mar 7, 2024 · 44 min

    S2 EP7 - It Catches Up With You | بتِرجَع بطِلْقَتك

    <p><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">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 p

  • S2 · E6
    Feb 19, 2024 · 25 min

    S2 EP6 - Les Yeux Masqués | مْغَطّيلْنا عيوننا

    <p>French audio. For subtitles in Arabic and in English please listen to the episode on YouTube.<br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">In this episode, we hear first hand what it was like to be held hostage in another

  • S2 · E5
    Feb 13, 2024 · 27 min

    S2 EP5 - Fragmented | مْقَطّعة أَوصالُه

    <p><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">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 W

  • S2 · E4
    Feb 1, 2024 · 30 min

    S2 EP4 - Addicted | بس تعشقها… مشكلة

    <p><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">In this episode, we hear about how addictive war becomes for the journalists covering it as they describe the smell of fear and the thrill of existing on the fine line between life an

  • S2 · E3
    Jan 18, 2024 · 39 min

    S2 EP3 - Do It For The Picture | كرمال الصورة

    <p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hsl(0,0%,100%);">We continue with foreign correspondents, this episode focusing on Anglophones, telling of their experience of coming to grips with the particularities of life during the Lebanese Civil Wa

  • S2 · E2
    Jan 18, 2024 · 36 min

    S2 EP2 - Je Suis Où Là? | وين أنا؟

    <p><span style="color:hsl(0, 0%, 100%);">This episode shares the insights of foreign correspondents, mainly the francophones, and how they found themselves lured to Beirut on assignments to cover the war, while experiencing the upside of privileged life c

  • S2 · E1
    Jan 18, 2024 · 49 min

    S2 EP1 - And The War Erupted حرب ... و بلّشت

    <p><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hsl(0,0%,100%);">In the first episode of our special 9 part-series on journalism during the Lebanese Civil War, we hear how Lebanese reporters and photographers suddenly found themselves covering a war, w

  • S2 · E3
    Jan 13, 2024 · 2 min

    Trailer - Journalism During The War.

    <p><span style="background-color:rgb(40,40,40);color:rgb(255,255,255);">New episodes out January 18, 2024.</span></p>

  • S1 · E12
    Jul 21, 2022 · 25 min

    S1 EP12 - Maabar | معبر

    <p>Support "Maabar" on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Maabar">Patreon</a>.</p><p><br><br>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 w

  • S1 · E11
    Jul 15, 2022 · 37 min

    S1 EP11 - One After The Other | واحد ورا الثاني

    <p>Support "Maabar" on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Maabar">Patreon</a>.</p><p><br><strong><u>Disclaimer: </u></strong>This episode contains heavy language and strong depictions of violence that may be triggering to some. Please be advised.<br><br>Whe

  • S1 · E10
    Jul 7, 2022 · 41 min

    S1 EP10 - Folie | جنون

    <p>Support "Maabar" on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Maabar">Patreon</a>.<br><br>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

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