An online forum on the War and occupation of Lebanon was held on November 11 Remembrance Day to end wars.
Moderator:
Imtiaz Popat: Duniya Journal Publisher, filmmaker, founder of Coalition Against Bigotry-Pacific.
Guests:
Ghinwa Yassine: Labanese Canadian anti-disciplinary artist, based on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh people.
Her work includes film, installation, performance, sound, text, and sculpture, text, and is concerned with the body as a site where personal and collective memory manifest.
Hadani Ditmars: Lebanese Canadian author, journalist, and photographer Hadani Ditmars has reported from Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq, often examining the human costs of sectarian strife as well as cultural resistance to war, occupation and embargo.
In 1992-3 Ditmars, who is also a singer, musician and actor, (see some of her work in Mosul here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRH6TWKHzxw) spent 9 months in Lebanon on an Ontario Arts Council funded mission to work with displaced children downtown – doing Augusto Boal theatre of the oppressed drama work and videography of the children’s experience. She brought together Muslim and Christian children – some of whom lived across the street from each other on the border of the old “green line” but wouldn’t cross over even after the civil war had officially ended.
Here’s a link to an essay she wrote about her time there https://www.bing.com/search?q=https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/lebanon-then-and-now-lament-for-an-orphaned-land-640119&count=1
Here are links to old Tele Liban footage of Hadani in the ruins of post war Beirut with some of the displaced children she worked with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TZSznDK-0
as well as scenes of her singing with Marcel Khalifé collaborator Sami Hawat who was part of the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfiGzAIyE0