Beirut Bereft

‘Driving in Beirut's streets, the carcasses of abandoned buildings encrusted between functional buildings and receded to invisibility – in spite of their bulky concrete brownish grey stockiness – often seemed like a tenacious and surly reminder of that street or neighbourhood’s previous life’.

It is out of these ruins that the idea for Beirut Bereft first arose and in 2003 writer Rasha Salti began to take notes and map out the buildings. On meeting photographer Ziad Antar in 2006 the project became real. Salti wrote the text and Antar set out on a process to visually document the buildings of Beirut.

This publication was commissioned and produced as part of Sharjah Beinnial 9.

Book Cover: Hard Paperback
Pages: 104
Photographs: Ziad Antar
Text: Rasha Salti
Translation: Mohammed Talaat Khedr
English Copy Editor: Nisreen Salti
Arabic Copy Editor: Samir Farrag
Graphic Design: Hatem Imam
Printing: Calligraph printing and trading SARL