Part research journey, part social experiment, part sanity exercise, the Beirut Journal served both as a way to reach out towards the Lebanese community and those I met during the year abroad and as a document of a specific and exciting moment in our collective struggle. The people interviewed and the pieces solicited point to not a universality of vision or voice but to a rich diversity of opinion and points of view. Yet underlying it all I saw fierce strength of vision and of place, demand for equality and human rights. Regional specificities rang out, echoed by global calls for greater accountability and solidarity between peoples and with the natural world. (you can view the work online at: http://sarahfarahat.weebly.com/beirut-journal.html)