Zidon / The newspaper

Lebanon

Reporting from Lebanon and its communities.

  1. Twenty-five years after the attacks

    Twenty-five years after the attacks, remembering Muslim victims, acts of courage, and Lebanon’s condolences offers a fuller account of a tragedy whose grief crossed borders.

  3. Habibi Jad

    Thank you for having the courage to film one of the videos I have been waiting years to see. You probably have no idea how much this means to me.

  8. Asher and Sidon: The Hebrew Border Memory of a Phoenician City

    Sidon was not Judea, and it was not conquered by Asher. But in the Hebrew Bible, Sidon appears at the northern edge of Asher’s inheritance, where Israelite geography met the Phoenician coast. Asher’s world was one of oil, orchards, sea routes, borderlands, and unfinished conquest, making Sidon not a hidden Judean city, but a powerful Phoenician place remembered inside Hebrew biblical memory.

  9. Arab Muslims and the Protection of the Jews: A Forgotten History of Coexistence

    Jewish memory is not foreign to the Arab world. It belongs to it. For centuries, Jews and Muslims lived as neighbors, sometimes unequally, sometimes tensely, but often with deep cultural connection. Arabic was a Jewish language. Baghdad, Cairo, Fez, Córdoba, Damascus, Aleppo, Sidon, Beirut, and Jerusalem were all part of Jewish history. The protection of Jews by Arab and Muslim societies should not be romanticized, but it should be remembered. It proves that another relationship was possible. It proves that coexistence is not a Western invention. It existed in the Middle East, in North Africa, in al-Andalus, in Ottoman cities, and in Muslim homes that opened their doors to Jews in danger.

  10. [Updated] Ora Bar visits the north

    "ש Moabet bet bet bet..... "ש Ora Bar’s return to Israel’s northern border is a message of coexistence from an Israeli-Canadian voice shaped by the North.

  11. Baruch Hashem for Pilates Jewish Girlies

    A warm, stylish, slightly amused Montreal-coded tribute to Pilates Jewish girlies: disciplined, elegant, coffee in hand, tote bag on shoulder, group chat fully active, and dreaming of safe Jewish spaces from Mile End to Sidon.

  15. From Damascus to Beirut and Jewish Heritage

    Across the Middle East, old synagogues, family archives, and vanished communities are no longer only private memories. They are becoming civic questions: who preserves them, who narrates them, and who is allowed to return through history before returning in person?