Photos, letters, songs: Lebanon calls on residents, diaspora to tell its history

Part of the country’s history is still waiting to be told in the drawers of Lebanese families. It lives in a photograph whose faces are becoming difficult to identify, a letter received from Brazil, a song whose lyrics only elders know. A new digital platform, launched Thursday, Oct. 15, seeks to gather these traces of everyday life before they disappear along with those who remember them. Read more Villa Mexico sale in Achrafieh worries heritage defenders Presented at the National Library of Lebanon in Beirut, in the presence of Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh and Italian Ambassador Fabrizio Marcelli, the initiative brings together the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA) and the Italy-based Heritage International Institute (HII). Its organizers describe it as the “first archives in the world dedicated to Lebanese...