Maryam and Nagham in the Warchée workshop where they are learning to work with wood. (Credit: Carla Henoud/L'Orient-Le Jour)
As soon as you step inside Warchée’s workshop, nestled in Beirut’s industrial Fleuve sector, the racket of machines and the intoxicating smell of freshly cut wood are overwhelming. A fine dust coats every surface: piles of battens, bags overflowing with wood shavings, wooden objects of all kinds — even the work clothes of the dozen or so people bustling around the space. More initiatives In Beirut, a circle of readers under the bombs Here, style and precision go hand in hand. Woodworking at Warchée — which means "worksite" in Arabic — is done in the feminine. It’s 9:30 a.m., and the women carpenters are already sanding, cutting, and oiling wood with care and meticulousness.A space punctuated by the noise of machines and the movements of the women who work there. (Credit: Carla Henoud/L'Orient-Le Jour) Warchée is a...
As soon as you step inside Warchée’s workshop, nestled in Beirut’s industrial Fleuve sector, the racket of machines and the intoxicating smell of freshly cut wood are overwhelming. A fine dust coats every surface: piles of battens, bags overflowing with wood shavings, wooden objects of all kinds — even the work clothes of the dozen or so people bustling around the space. More initiatives In Beirut, a circle of readers under the bombs Here, style and precision go hand in hand. Woodworking at Warchée — which means "worksite" in Arabic — is done in the feminine. It’s 9:30 a.m., and the women carpenters are already sanding, cutting, and oiling wood with care and meticulousness.A space punctuated by the noise of machines and the movements of the women who work there. (Credit: Carla Henoud/L'Orient-Le Jour)...
