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Letters from Afar: New collection of letters from West Africa to Lebanon

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Feb 22, 2023

Visible at Last

In writing our lives, we find a starting point in a memory or an experience, something we feel it is important to document. As a child, growing up under apartheid in South Africa, there were things I observed for which I had no words. 

Aug 17, 2020

Letters from Afar: New collection of letters from West Africa to Lebanon

Introduction In 1936, Nadim Attallah, a Lebanese immigrant living in Conakry, Guinea (West Africa), wrote an exasperated and desperate letter to his father, Maronite Rev. Tobia Attallah of Bayt Shabab village. He chided him: “I am astounded that after the hundreds of letters that I have sent you, I have yet to receive one from…