"Whatever happens": fragments of a family memory to be preserved at all costs. (Credit: Noor Chahabeddine)
On this particular day, the sky in Paris is blue and the scent of spring already hangs over sun-drenched terraces. Blue like that summer in Lebanon. It was August, during the holidays. Light and carefree, like pollen in the powdery sunlight flooding the Parisian terraces, students roam the mountain roads. After several twists and turns, they reach the famous "spot": a lookout above the clouds, like in the romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. It's around 4 p.m., nap time in Lebanese villages. In light shorts and T-shirts, two young people let themselves go, atop a cedar, above the sea of clouds. Also in Paris In Paris, politics brings a dinner among Lebanese friends to an abrupt end In this photo of friends, time seems suspended, like the tree above the clouds. At 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, fragments of...
On this particular day, the sky in Paris is blue and the scent of spring already hangs over sun-drenched terraces. Blue like that summer in Lebanon. It was August, during the holidays. Light and carefree, like pollen in the powdery sunlight flooding the Parisian terraces, students roam the mountain roads. After several twists and turns, they reach the famous "spot": a lookout above the clouds, like in the romantic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. It's around 4 p.m., nap time in Lebanese villages. In light shorts and T-shirts, two young people let themselves go, atop a cedar, above the sea of clouds. Also in Paris In Paris, politics brings a dinner among Lebanese friends to an abrupt end In this photo of friends, time seems suspended, like the tree above the clouds. At 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, fragments of...
