From the European Review of Books:
Belal felt life had become « too fast, stripped of slowness and reflection, and constrained by the lack of freedom to live and experience fully. » Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs. Some he rephotographed, wondering if he could bring the archive back to life: « an act of resistance against forgetting, speed, and the indifference imposed by years of war. »
Belal’s mother and father in Tartus in 1986.
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