How eyeliner became a symbol of political resistance

As a child, one of Zahra Hankir’s favourite pastimes was watching her mother apply her eyeliner. “Liquid liner to her lids and kohl along her waterlines,” she recalls. With six children and “the world’s weight on her shoulders” having fled civil war in Lebanon, Hankir reflects that her mother seemed to be “surrounded by constant chaos”. But when she paused to put her eyeliner on, she says that she “often felt that the entire world would come tohellip;
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