Dalal Mawad
Dalal Mawad is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Paris. She is the author of “All She Lost,” a nonfiction book about Lebanon’s collapse and the 2020 Beirut explosion told through women’s stories. Mawad is also an adjunct journalism professor at Sciences Po University, Paris.
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Hezbollah Fighters’ Stories as Told by Their Mothers
Since the onset of Hezbollah’s battles with Israel in southern Lebanon last October, launched in “support” of Gaza, about 400 Hezbollah fighters have been killed, according to a tally by the French news agency AFP. The party itself has not shared any official death toll figures. But the overcrowding of the Beirut cemetery, one of many around the country dedicated to its fighters, is evidence of the growing casualties of the war for Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Paris Police Are Cracking Down on Vulnerable Communities Ahead of the Olympics
Earlier this year, 17 organizations issued a report accusing French authorities of “forcefully” evicting vulnerable communities across Paris ahead of the Olympic Games, including sex workers. They mentioned “increased repression” by authorities, warning of detrimental consequences for the safety and well-being of women.