During the last half hour from my balcony, I have been watching the skyline. Is burning. are 4:14 am.
The above are the first lines of the post, translated into English, with which Zena El-Khalil released his blog Beirut Update. Artist plastic Lebanese origin, born in England, returned home for his first solo exhibition. With many plans, the war cut short and held in the capital of the land of their ancestors.
At 3:28 in the morning, I awoke to the sound of Israeli jets flying low over our skies in Beirut. A soon to fall asleep, finally, thoughts crossed my mind all night, cramps in my stomach, fear ... And to think that some would fall asleep and I heard the sound of the jets, one followed by another, one explosion after another. Is somewhat calmer now.
I hear people praying morning prayers in the distance.
Throughout all of July and August, Zena wrote 35 posts in which recounted his days in the war waged by the Israeli army and the terrorist group Hezbollah. How the Israeli bombs did not discern the guilty and innocent. The powerlessness of ordinary people not being able to slap two or three at the world and wake him from his lethargy and indifference.
More than a million forced off now
civilization More than a thousand Lebanese killed.
many times I have to say that my country is being destroyed piece by piece.
In my city, entire neighborhoods are gone.
Entire families have disappeared
Southern Lebanon is a single flame
For a month, I had to do to Lebanon brutalized.
Its citizens crumpled under the rubble of their homes.
can not make peace amid the sound of bombs.
Zena Al Blog found him later, clicking links in a local newspaper that addressed the topic of blogging in Lebanon, four days ago. I was hooked instantly. I read what he had written as a child that reviews the lesson unlearned half an hour of starting the test. How not to sympathize with whom you confess what they really feel, know of euphemisms and communicate what he really thinks and above, suffer the injustices of human folly. And like her, an entire country stunned.
So I cried and cried ... because I felt an incredible wave of fear and sadness over my mind. I have not been sleeping. Combine fear and lack of sleep and have a great turning point downhill.
Zena el-Khalil is identified with three countries said to be English, Lebanon and Nigeria. The International Museum Women dela yours appears a little blurb: "Born in England in 1976. He grew up in Nigeria, where he read much, participated in karate competitions and listening Iron Maiden. At that time, his favorite color was purple. Still is. Is co-founder of Xanadu, an art space located in New York and Beirut, dedicated to helping young artists who are not interested in circuits and Alijsser malls, an American organization that works to promote the work of Arab artists. " In this website has on their happy marriage.
After all this information and understand more frustration when he learns that it is likely, she says a story that quoted a political scientist, that Israel have planned the attacks on one of the three countries over the past six years, at least. While
BUILDING DREAMS, they planned my destruction
(...) In the past six years, I was encouraging others to paint, sculpt, draw, film, photograph, make, glue, sewing, create ... I promised that their jobs would be accepted anywhere ... it was so important to work ... Lebanon that embraced the arts ... and we just had to route it.
the past six years, my parents promised a family, I promised grandchildren.
In the past six years, my best friends I promised them that our children would love Beirut. A Beirut that is healthy for ourselves and our friends, a Beirut unlike any other city in the world. (...)
But not hate. Never hate. I'm just really, I really disappointed by those people who feel they have the right to govern IT my life. All that remains now is to resist. Resist love. My most powerful weapon that nobody can touch. I still love you. I will always love. I love Beirut.
One character, the Zena. I found some of that country that sounded so far as the Lebanese should sonarles mine, Peru. His posts are really great. One of lives. Most feel vertigo, the fear, the uncertainty of the bombs leaked on Beirut, that smell that equates Zena he received in New York when he arrived two months after the fall of the towers. I agree with Zena
that the same sounds and the same feelings that she and other Lebanese perceived during the last month should be the same as stalking Jews in World War II.
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Fair, the photo above New York shows a wall with a sentence of your blog, where an artist friend of hers used his posts for an interactive class with students of art. Yesterday
Israel declared a ceasefire in Lebanon. His troops began to withdraw. The return of a few displaced. Peace becomes fearful, almost silent, withdrawn, expressionless. With Zena share their sorrow and their joy now that the squalor of war recedes. Then, his last post published until the end of this:
IN THE NIGHT OF CEASEFIRE
This morning I awoke with a smile on my face. My husband jumped on me, kissing me all over his face, saying that the war was about to end .. the UN voted ... that things would improve now. I had woken up two hours early, but I jumped out of bed with a kind of energy that had not had for a month. This was a good morning.
all changed this weekend.
Supposedly, things were going to have some sort of final. One or the other.
On the night of the ceasefire, I had mixed emotions.
I am grateful that things are coming to an end.
Finally, the real work now lies before us: not just about rebuilding lives, the paìsí of morality. It is also to advance positivamnete forward in every way.
War hatred instilled in people. We as humans have to make sure that will not fall into the vicious circle of hatred.
We need to grow and talk about politics as citizens of the beautiful Mother Earth.
I do not think we were born to hate. I think we can be influenced by things like fear, violence, oppression and misunderstanding.
You should not have to live in fear, one should not have to be victims of violence.
seems that these days, violence and fear rules our lives are on TV and in the news ... but we should not be. a costume people use it for their own selfish benefits. The reality of life is love, not fear. We need to remember.
Life is beautiful ... is like the infinite possibilities of youth .... is like the first kiss ....
Remember the scene in Matrix (the third), near the end, when Neo and Trinity enter the Machine World ... flying in the air, hands held, love guides them through the war zone. From there they cross the sky, through the dark clouds
electric ... fighting for his life ... hence continue and suddenly they see the Earth as it really is: beautiful clear skies ... and that Trinity says "beautiful." I wonder
if we can also do that.
If there is something she learned last month, is that life is very precious. Second, your whole life can change. One day I was working in an art gallery by sending pictures to their new owners ... the next morning our airport was bombed and we were at war. So, out of nowhere.
my life was so fast at the beginning of this year ... was busy preparing for my first personal exhibition in Lebanon will be in May, was working hard in my studio every day.
Simultánemaente, was organizing an exhibition that would be in June. It was great. 21 artists and a full month events related thereto.
I held many things in my life. He said to me and everyone around me (including my husband) "In July I will have my old life back ... we'll have fun in July. We'll go to the beach in July. Yes, even you have decided to finally get pregnant! Only I can not do anything about it until July. "
And look what happened in July ... and certainly, I do not go to the beach
long, long time. many years, at least.
Life is so very precious.
LINKS:
---> UPDATE BEIRUT war diaries of a 30 year old woman ... with love from beirut.
---> ZIGGYDOODLE , WORKS OF ART OF THE KHALIL ZENNA.
---> ZENA IN Imagining Ourselves, A GLOBAL GENERATION OF WOMEN, THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN.
---> KICK THE PHOTO: GOTHAMIST.COM .
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