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Welcome to Beirut is about daily life: driving in the city, going to the hairdresser, discussions with the grocer, visiting a motor show, a wax museum, dining out… It is a driven promenade inside the city with a few open windows through which to peep in. More ironic than sarcastic, the film reveals the state of mind of a certain Lebanese society, a direct consequence of the atlas syndrome: When one opens a European atlas of the world, Lebanon is in the middle but also in the crack, central yet invisible.

Text by Dominique Eddé, novelist and essayist.

« Si je suis en train de rêver, ne me réveillez pas »
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Lebanese novelist and essayist Dominique Eddé writes in an article in le Monde that, despite her concerns, it is wonderful to witness the emergence of a movement where “a people who no one believed in any longer can be seen and their voices heard”: a Lebanese people united in solidarity.

Published October 26th, 2019 – Le Monde.