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Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2

Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2
Nour Kadour has lived with his family in Qabaait for a year. The Kadour family fled Syria when fighting in the civil war became too fierce. They live in a small, basic home owned by a local family Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2
Hussein Khoder helps a friend with work in the village of Qabaait in remote northern Lebanon. He says work helps him take his mind off things – Khoder lost his wife and eight children when the boat taking them from Indonesia to Australia sank en route
Photograph: Andrew Quilty /Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
Hussein Khoder smokes constantly in the house he bought in the village of Qabaait after returning without his wife and eight children, who all drowned
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
Hussein Khoder (left) lost his wife and eight children while Khoder Osman (second from left) lost his son and daughter. Khoder Jdid (right) lost his son when the boat carrying them all from Indonesia to Christmas Island sank in late 2013. The three men have just discussed money owed to the man who built the caskets for the dead
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
Khoder Osman attends Friday prayers at one of the many mosques in Qabaait. Osman lost his son and daughter when the boat they were travelling in sank between Indonesia and Christmas Island
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
A rocket shell decorates a bookshelf in the living room of Khoder Darwish, who lost his new wife, Manal Hamze, when the boat they were in sank on its way from Indonesia to Australia
Photograph: Andrew Quilty /Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
The family of Abdul Karem, a Lebanese man who had previously lived in Australia, drink tea and smoke on the verandah of their modest Qabaait home on a cold and wet day
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
A young boy prays at a mosque in Qabaait, Lebanon
Photograph: Andrew Quilty /Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
Washing hangs on a line on the roof of one of the hundreds of basic, uninsulated and mostly windowless homes of Qabaait, where the mountainous terrain brings not only spectacular views but also erratic weather
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
Ali Khoder Assad shows photos of his wife and two small children, all of whom drowned when the boat they were in capsized between Indonesia and Australia
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
Ali Khoder Assad whose son, Assad Ali Assad, lost his wife and two children on a boat that sank between Indonesia and Australia in September 2013
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Andrew Quilty/Oculi
Qabaait, Lebanon: Part 2: Suffering on two fronts in Qabaait, Lebanon: Part Two
The call to prayer reverberates through the valley as a young girl walks by on a muddy road at dusk in Qabaait
Photograph: Andrew Quilty/Oculi/Guardian
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