To Beirut with hope: how the city shaped by refugees makes room for new arrivals

Zohour Damriye lives in Shatila, one of Beirut’s Palestinian camps. Photograph: Jenny GustafssonAcross the city, just off the road leading to the airport, is Shatila, established as one of Beirut’s Palestinian camps. The first winter rains have just arrived and the roads are filled with pools of water. On a narrow street sits Zohour Damriye, whose parents fled to Lebanon in 1948. A heavy sewing ma