Lebanon 2018-2021 My great grandmother, Sito Linda, was raised just a few hundred feet from where I sit writing this today in my apartment near Sassine Square. In 1925 she and her husband, Mitchell Maalouf, from the small mountain village of Kfarakab, emigrated to Post, Texas, and would remain there for the rest of their lives. The port which they left from in Beirut, would violently explode nearly 100 years…

Since the war broke out in Syria in 2011, foreign interference, migration, poverty, and violence ensued on par with any action worldwide. Ten years into the conflict, which has cost over 400,000 lives and left most of the country in ruins. These images capture the daily life and the Syrian war on the side of the forces fighting for Bashar al Assad’s regime.