Shatila Camp, Seventy Years On

This is the story of Lebanon's Shatila refugee camp told as a series of original photos.

by Marika Sosnowski and Darrian Traynor

The light is dank, sneaking down to ground level in streets barely wide enough for one car, between buildings, which have grown over the seventy years since Lebanon’s Shatila refugee camp was established, from two to six or seven stories. Myriad pipes and wires connecting electricity, water, sewerage and the Intern…