TRACES OF THE WAR – DAHESH PALACE – BEIRUT – LEBANON (2003)
The civil war in Lebanon ended in 1989. To this day there are Shiite refugees living in the Dahesh palace, a place where they sought shelter during the hostilities. Farida Hamak did a photo essay on this forgotten community in Beirut who are not able to find an alternative to this once majestic but now long ago dilapidated palace. New generations grow up there, their elders breath their last there. The authorities would prefer to have their illegal guests, who have nowhere else to go, off their hands.
