Daily Podcasts Video Research

What's Ours - Myriam Boulos’s photographs probe the porous boundaries between everyday life and revolutionary rupture.

JL;DR SUMMARY Myriam Boulos's photographic series, "What's Ours," captures the vibrant and tumultuous reality of contemporary Lebanon, particularly during the October 17 Revolution. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

Protests  Community  Lebanon  Emotional Resilience  Social Change  Photography  Everyday Life  Revolution  Myriam Boulos  October 17 Revolution 

Places mentioned

Lebanon
"There was, she knew, a general air of instability throughout Lebanon, people struggled to access basic services like water, electricity, and sanitation but later she would come to realize that she was also intuiting a newly unfolding catastrophe."
Beirut, Lebanon
"What strikes me is not the debris of Beirut, but the sybaritic quality produced by the rich interplay of textural and chromatic elements."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 54834
Cairo Source ID 5
Retrieved 2025-06-18 05:30:33 UTC
Curated 2025-06-18 08:32:53 UTC