GREETINGS FROM BEIRUT

This publication deals with the issues of cultural representation, taking Beirut / Lebanon / the region as the focus of this project.

Beirut / Lebanon / the region has mainly been represented in stereotypical ways - ranging from orientalism to terrorism. Recent events and political conflicts have drawn more media coverage and attention to the region and thus reiterating existing preconceptions.

By compiling different viewpoints, personal concerns, individual aspects etc. from an insider‘s position and first hand experience, this project attempts to create a facetted and in-depth representation of this place / culture.

Various local artists from different disciplines have contributed to this project, creating a large variety of viewpoints - informative, political, social, cultural, critical, even humorous etc. in image and/or text.

Contributing artists and designers: Margherita Abi-Hanna, Caroline Dagher, May Ghaibeh, Rena Karanouh, Josette Khalil, Greta Khoury, Anja Lutz, Zeina Maasri, Areej Mahmoud, Rana Maktabi, Jonas Maron, Diane Mazloum, Mind the gap, Yasmine Odaymat, Dagmar Reichert, Samar Rizkallah, Lucien Samaha, Ola Sinno, Tammam Hassan Yamout, Akram Zaatari.
Edited and art-directed by Anja Lutz and Zeina Maasri
Supported by: Dar El Kotob Printing House, Goethe Institut Beirut, Auswärtiges Amt

160 pages, full colour, paperback
Format: 185 x 240 mm
Cover: fold-out flaps, laminated
© 2003
ISBN 3-00-011319-3

Price: € 20,00