Art in Lebanon

Our friend Hajar sent us these updates from Lebanon:

A project we called 'Flipbooks for Lebanon', this initiative was intended to raise awareness amongst the children of Lebanon on the dangers of playing with cluster bombs. Given the target demographic of children; who have, on occasion, mistook cluster bombs for playthings, we felt flipbooks to be an apt medium for disseminating the message.

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Gharbzadeghi explores the way that the fields of architecture and design have been largely fashioned after the western aesthetic. Beyond the obvious influences in building and architectural forms largely recognized as western, Gharbzadeghi similarly examines forms of architecture typically identified as being ‘vernacular’ and illustrate how these forms of architecture have been predicated largely along western lines, with its chief articulators largely western.

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