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25 Aug 2006
Zena el-Khalil an artist living in Beirut has written an online diary through the war and now the aftermath. Her story has been picked up by The Guardian, and the BBC. She had recently contributed to…

Zena el-Khalil an artist living in Beirut has written an online diary through the war and now the aftermath. Her story has been picked up by The Guardian, and the BBC. She had recently contributed to the Imagining Ourselves project run by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. Just prior to the war Zena was preparing as part of that project a group exhibition of 21 Lebanese young women artists of all cultural backgrounds. The theme was ironically around imagining a better future for Muslim women.

You can read her blog at Beirut Update

Image: The Wedding Project by Zena el-KhalilZena el-Khalil an artist living in Beirut has written an online diary through the war and now the aftermath. Her story has been picked up by The Guardian, and the BBC. She had recently contributed to the Imagining Ourselves project run by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. Just prior to the war Zena was preparing as part of that project a group exhibition of 21 Lebanese young women artists of all cultural backgrounds. The theme was ironically around imagining a better future for Muslim women.

You can read her blog at Beirut Update

Image: The Wedding Project by Zena el-Khalil