The archive · Curated
Exhibits
Each exhibit gathers photographs, documents, and testimonies around a single event. They are meant to be read slowly.
1976 · 18 min read
Damour, January 1976
A coastal town, its church, and its cemetery
The events at Damour in January 1976 remain among the most documented mass killings of the Lebanese civil war. This exhibit gathers the surviving photographs, the parish records, and the testimonies of families who returned decades later to a village that no longer recognized them.
1978 · 9 min read
Ehden, June 1978
One family, one household, one summer morning
The killings at the Frangieh summer residence in Ehden collapsed a national political line into a single household. This exhibit traces the morning of 13 June through the eyes of two survivors and the diocesan record.
1978 · 22 min read
The Hundred Days
Ashrafieh under sustained shelling, 1978
For roughly one hundred days in 1978, the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafieh in East Beirut lived under continuous artillery fire. This exhibit records the rhythm of that period through diaries, radio transcripts, and the drawings of children who sheltered in basements.
1975 · 12 min read
Aishiyeh, the last village
An isolated Christian community in the South
Aishiyeh stood alone in a region from which other Christian villages had already emptied. This exhibit collects what remains: three photographs, four testimonies, and the parish registry that was carried out in a suitcase.