It has been almost a year since I last visited Lebanon to conduct my field research; investigating socio-spatial forms of vitality that displaced communities construct to maintain livelihood and resist a protracted displacement; a joint work with Prof Nick Tyler through the project RELIEF. When I left Lebanon back in November of 2019, the country was in turmoil grappling with various challenges, most prominent of which was the people’s uprising. In fact, the uprising can be seen as the final act of the year 2019, in a chapter full of accumulated economic woes including; serious forms of corruption and political theft of public wealth and goods; social strains --affecting the local Lebanese fabric and its long-existing refugee population--; political unrest as more and more local communities found themselves without any political or legal protection; environmental disasters –lack of reliable energy sources and the infamous pollution of the Litani river--; and regional uncertainty which not only affects Lebanon, yet within a local state as the aforementioned, Lebanon places itself in an even more fragile position.