How Jamil Molaeb depicts war in the spirit of national unity

"I am not one of those who like war. If I have depicted it, it was only to get rid of it. Unfortunately, in this country, it never lets go of us. Like death, it is always at our heels," confides 78-year-old Jamil Molaeb in a weary voice on the phone to L'Orient-Le Jour. Memory as resistance In Sydney, Nasri Sayegh stitches together a raw Lebanese memory The artist is tired of these recurring conflicts, weighed down by the flare-ups that regularly infiltrate the Lebanon he dreams of. The country he tirelessly depicts in his canvases: open to the blue horizon; endowed with a radiant nature inhabited by birds perched on the branches of blossoming orchards. And the bewitching capital in its tangle of buildings, mosques, and churches. This country of gentleness and coexistence, which he has so often celebrated through his...