Season 1
13 Episodes
Season 1
This inaugural season begins from the ground up, exploring everyday life during the war through childhood memories, first loves, and first jobs. It focuses on how people tried to lead normal lives, only to have them repeatedly shattered by sudden violence, loss, and trauma – including the forcibly disappeared and the tens of thousands killed.
Episodes
S1 - Prologue
2 mins
Introducing Maabar
S1 EP1 - Cops & Robbers
27 min
Against the backdrop of war, childhood play, laughter, and love.
S1 EP2 - Mère Gabrielle
25 min
War disrupts once-safe schools drawing children into conflict.
S1 EP3 - A Fragrant Welcome
25 min
As people huddle around their TVs, awaiting news, the only certainty is uncertainty.
S1 EP4 - Citizen Band
27 min
Lifelines, walkie talkies connected families, fostering bonds across chaos and enemy lines.
S1 EP5 - Where from, where to?
31 min
Checkpoints and snipers divide, yet daily life defies imposed boundaries.
S1 EP6 - Folding Stock
26 min
War becomes personal as neighbors arm, tensions rise, existential questions emerge.
S1 EP7 - Bow or Leave
28 min
As violence prevails, fear shapes daily life and power dictates fate.
S1 EP8 - Branch 235
40 min
In war’s shadow, 17,000 disappeared, their stories untold, their fates unknown.
S1 EP9 - Survival
45 min
Who’s who? War blurs the line between victim and combatant.
S1 EP10 - Folie
41 min
In war, the unthinkable becomes everyday life.
S1 EP11 - One After The Other
37 min
The scars of war are recognized through untold stories shared.
S1 EP12 - Maabar
25 min
After war, life may resume, but identity and closure remain elusive.
Credits
Maabar is created and Produced by Anthony Tawil and Cedric Kayem
Executive Producer: Jenny Munro
Oral History Advisor: Maria Bashshur Abunnasr
Design and Visuals: Bernard Hage
Video: Ziad Massabni
Voice Over: Wissam Matar
Translation and Transcription: Leila Maroun and Maya Massaad
Special thanks to all those who shared their stories, without whom this podcast would not have happened.
Thanks to the support and advice of: Soha Fleyfil, Hassan Salha, Mona Hassouna, Nayla Khodr Hamadeh, Sara Sibai, Rafic Zakharia, Marina Krikorian, Firas Hallak, Jad Youssef, Rudy Kamel and Bachir Sfeir.
We also want to thank the Comittee for the Families of the Disappeared, Act for the Disappeared and Fighters for Peace for their work and their assitance on finding people to tell their stories.
This season of Maabar was produced in partnership with Pro Peace / forumZFD and was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).