2007 - To Exist is To Resist. III. Lebanon. Refugee Life. - Maysun Visual Journalist & Storyteller

Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp, Saida, Lebanon. The electric system is an important problem in the streets of Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp. The installation is a very precarious cloak that covers the the sky of the Camp. There are only 6 hours a day of electric light with continuous breakdown. Private companys are getting rich wih this situation, offering exorbitant prices for this basic service. MAYSUN

Palestinian- Lebanese town called “Al Mashob", “The One in Love”, South of Lebanon. A boy sleeps after lunch. MAYSUN

Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp, Saida, Lebanon. A one eyed dressmaker mends a jacket. MAYSUN

Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp, Saida, Lebanon. Children playing at home. MAYSUN

Burj el-Barajneh Refugee Camp. Beirut. Lebanon. A woman cleans up with water outside his house, which is completely surrounded by electrical wiring. The electric system is an important problem in the streets of Burj el-Barajneh Refugee Camp. The installation is a very precarious cloak that covers the the sky of the Camp. There are only 6 hours a day of electric light with continuous breakdown. Private companys are getting rich wih this situation, offering exorbitant prices for this basic service. MAYSUN

Palestinian- Lebanese town called “Al Mashob", “The One in Love”, South of Lebanon A widowed woman shows her house with only one window that goes to a rubbish dump. MAYSUN

Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp, Saida, Lebanon. Palestinian young men dance Dabka, the national dance of Palestine. Dabka is a folklorikal dance of community, often performed at weddings and other joyous occasions such as family parties or competitions. MAYSUN

Palestinian town called “Al Mashob, “The One in Love”, South of Lebanon. A woman goes out form a shop. MAYSUN

Burj el-Barajneh Refugee Camp. Beirut. Lebanon. A man working as a mechanic in a garage. MAYSUN

Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp, Saida, Lebanon. Palestinian girl makes her up in the mirror as a part of a beauty course to promote new job. In Ain el Helweh camp, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, the rate of unemployment is 80%. MAYSUN

Aadel Abou Salem, a Palestinian engineer and also a worker at the Social Solidarity Center has lunch at his house in Ain el Helweh Refugee Camp, Saida, Lebanon, 2007. MAYSUN

Baddawi Refugee Camp. Tripoli, North Lebanon. Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation in Baddawi Refugee Camp. Was founded as a Lebanese NGO on July 8th 1974, on the 2nd anniversary of the martyrdom of Ghassan Kanafani, author, journalist, artist and spokesman for the Palestinian people. The Foundation runs kindergartens and habilitation centers with a capacity for 625 children, in the Palestinian refugee camps and deprived areas in Lebanon. GKFC's outreach program for disabled children, children's libraries, art centers and clubs benefit another 500 children. MAYSUN

Baddawi Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. Families from the Naher Al Bared camp who fled fighting between the Lebanese army and the Fatah al Islam militia—whose fighters entered the camp from other Arab countries—live in crowded schoolrooms in the nearby MAYSUN

Baddawi Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. Palestinians from Naher el Bared Refugee Camp transferred to another camp called Baddawi after the complete destruction of the first one because the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. MAYSUN

Baddawi Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. A Palestinian baby from Naher el Bared Refugee Camp transferred to another camp called Baddawi after the complete destruction of the first one because the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. MAYSUN

Baddawi Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. A Palestinian child in one of the crowded schoolrooms for the Palestinians from Naher el Bared Refugee Camp transfers to another camp called Baddawi. MAYSUN

Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. The Camp 3 years later, reduced to rubble after its complete destruction because of the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. MAYSUN

New Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. A Palestinian man, from Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, lives with his family in a very bad condition metal container house located in New Naher El Bared, beside the ruins of the first one, completely destroyed 3 years ago because of the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. They have rats, insects and many problems with waste pipes, and the temperatures in winter and summer are unbearable. MAYSUN

New Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. Children, from Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, outside the metal container houses located in New Naher El Bared, beside the ruins of the first one, completely destroyed 3 years ago because of the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. They have rats, insects and many problems with waste pipes, and the temperatures in winter and summer are unbearable. MAYSUN

New Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. A Palestinian woman and her daugther, from Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, lives with her family in a very bad condition metal container house located in New Naher El Bared, beside the ruins of the first one, completely destroyed 3 years ago because of the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. They have rats, insects and many problems with waste pipes, and the temperatures in winter and summer are unbearable. MAYSUN

New Naher El Bared Refugee Camp, Tripoli, North of Lebanon. A street of New Naher El Bared, beside the ruins of the first one, completely destroyed 3 years ago because of the battle between a faction of Al Qaeda and the Lebanese army. MAYSUN