زنازين، مجلة السجون المركزية اللبنانية

Abstract

Zanazine, is a multilingual, literary and art quarterly magazine that aims to provide inmates with an opportunity to communicate a message, share their stories, publish their work and be heard by the outside world. It constitutes a two ways communication, that goes from inside prison to the outside, and from one prison to another. It also aims at raising its readers awareness around different aspects of life in Lebanese central prisons. Prisoners would also be encouraged to make use of their time in order to work, reflect, collaborate, disconnect, and share. This magazine would provide them with good opportunities such that it can reduce their imprisonment period.

The publication’s sections include: Various sets of short stories from inmates; Interviews with ex-prisoners, family members, staff…; Artwork produced by inmates like poems, paintings, drawings, plays…