In a miniature re-creation, Fida and her grandmother discover corpses amidst the ruins heading from east to west Beirut toward her grandmother’s house. (Credit: Nicholas Frakes/L’Orient Today)
Eau de Javel.The question was simple: What does war smell like?For Fida Bizri, a 50-year-old linguist and storyteller who lived through Lebanon’s 15-year Civil War, there is no scent more ubiquitous. “When there were a lot of bodies on the street,” she said with a quiet devastation that pierced the room. “They used Eau de Javel to clean the blood.” More Beirut events: ‘We are the future’: Lebanese identity at the forefront of this year’s AUB Outdoors It was one of the moments at Hkeeli that felt less like entering an exhibition and more like walking into someone’s trauma, grief still blanketing the walls. Located inside Beit Beirut — a building that still bears the scars of the Civil War, marked by bullet wounds and haunted by silence — the exhibition does more than recount the war. It immerses people in the aftermath — inviting a...
Eau de Javel.The question was simple: What does war smell like?For Fida Bizri, a 50-year-old linguist and storyteller who lived through Lebanon’s 15-year Civil War, there is no scent more ubiquitous. “When there were a lot of bodies on the street,” she said with a quiet devastation that pierced the room. “They used Eau de Javel to clean the blood.” More Beirut events: ‘We are the future’: Lebanese identity at the forefront of this year’s AUB Outdoors It was one of the moments at Hkeeli that felt less like entering an exhibition and more like walking into someone’s trauma, grief still blanketing the walls. Located inside Beit Beirut — a building that still bears the scars of the Civil War, marked by bullet wounds and haunted by silence — the exhibition does more than recount the war. It immerses people in the...
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