Lebanese PM Saad Hariri’s suspended resignation is only cosmetic | Joumanah El Matrah
by Joumanah El Matrah from World news | The Guardian on (#38RRH)
The Lebanese know they don't have the military and political power to fight foreign influence. It is unlikely Hariri is a free man even after his return
The Sursock Gallery in Beirut features a video installation by Syrian artist Hrair Sarkissian, in which he is seen destroying his childhood home in Damascus. Forced from home by war, this is a man who has lost everything. In a video set on infinite replay, Sarkissian is seen again and again striking his home. His is an act of utter futility, but as a survivor of war this is all that is left to him: to feign control and agency in a world where you have none.
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