The RELIEF Centre’s prosperity team is delighted to announce the launch of the Covid-19 diaries – a series reflections about life in the context of the global pandemic that we are currently living through. As the pandemic hit, it changed our course of research in Lebanon. Travel plans had to be postponed until further notice because of lockdown regulations; fieldwork and research activities that the team had planned on the ground could no longer take place as envisaged; team workshops and assignments had to be moved online wherever possible. As we became physically fixed in the confines of our homes, our working lives moved to the realm of virtual online communication.