Stop Here For Happy Holiday (2017)
In 2017, I compiled all my archives from the Beach Resorts Project for the publication, Stop Here For Happy Holiday. Primarily funded by Sharjah Biennale Tamawij through the Curator Christine Tohmé with partial funding from Mophradat.
I wanted to include texts from various perspectives so I asked four writers to respond to my archives. After working with Waddah Charara on a few of his publications, he became the main contributor. I thought that it was interesting to turn away from a personal perspective and towards an author who wrote more than 70 books on Lebanon primarily in Arabic (sociology, architecture, war). After many meetings with Charara, I printed thumbnails of more than 300 pictures (mixing personal photographs, archives and new photos). His text reorganized my archives around a number of topics like the lens of photography, local histories and architecture…
Hicham Awad, PhD candidate at Harvard University, I met over 10 years ago on a dance floor. His way of examining the archive is through photographic and cinemagraphic works that grapple with ideas of leisure.
Ella Parry-Davies was working on her PHD at King’s College, London when she found my work on Tabarja Beach . She asked me if she could integrated it into her PhD on post war Lebanese artists. After many conversations, I asked her to contribute a text knowing her interest in gender and performativity in public space.
Charbel Haber, artist- musician, wrote the award winning music for “Summer 91” and contributed a poem about the Saframarina Massacre for the publication.
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