| \__Exhibitions |
Hkeeli Ya Jnoub (Tell Me, O South)
artists from South Lebanon
July 2026 | Beit Beirut
Exhibition at Beit Beirut extending the 2025 'Hkeeli' civil-war memory programme to the South, with photographs, letters, videos, a recreated southern home and a participatory archive of visitors' memories of destroyed villages. |
50 Years of Déjà-Vu
curated by Ayman Nahle
2025 | UMAM D&R, The Hangar, Beirut
Exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of 13 April 1975 that questions rather than commemorates the date, showing Joreige's 'Objects of War' and Tarazi's large collage 'The Lovers: Body and Land'. |
Beyond Ruptures, A Tentative Chronology
curated by Karina El Helou
2023 - 2025 | Sursock Museum, Beirut
Show staged for the Sursock Museum's reopening after the 2020 port explosion, tracing six interruptions in the museum's history from the civil war to the blast through its collection. |
Two Suns in a Sunset
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
2016 - 2017 | Jeu de Paume, Paris, and touring
Touring survey of the duo's work since the late 1990s on images, latency, disappearance and Lebanon's wars; catalogue co-published with Koenig Books. |
Letter to a Refusing Pilot
Akram Zaatari; curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
2013 | Lebanese Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale
Video installation built around the story of an Israeli pilot who in 1982 reportedly refused to bomb a school in Saida founded by the artist's father, mixing family memory and the history of the invasion. |
Out of Beirut
curated by Suzanne Cotter
13 May - 16 July 2006 | Modern Art Oxford
Landmark UK exhibition introducing the post-war Beirut generation of artists working on the war, the archive and the city, with a catalogue. |
| \__Commemorations and conferences |
The Oral Memory of Civil War and Violence in Lebanon: From Testimony to Archive
UMAM Documentation & Research, with UNDP
10 November - 5 December 2026 | Beirut
UMAM D&R workshop (10 November – 5 December 2026) on collecting and archiving the everyday, overlooked memories of the war, beyond the well-known massacres and dates. |
Fifty Years of Amnesia
AUB Department of History and Archaeology
April 2025 - April 2026 | American University of Beirut
Year-long series of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and concerts organised by AUB's Department of History and Archaeology with civil-society groups, launched 14–16 April 2025, to break the official silence about the war. |
Lebanon: Fifty Years of War Memory and Testimony
AUB University Libraries; curator Samar Mikati
2025 | online exhibition
Bilingual online exhibition for the 50th anniversary that presents the causes, phases and damage of the 1975–1990 war through photographs and documents from AUB's archives. |
