Artists band together to give Syria’s ‘lost generation’ a voice

The exhibition Haneen, which means ‘nostalgia’ in Arabic, showcases paintings and drawings inspired by the poetry of children who make up some of the 1.1 million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. (AFP)

BEIRUT: The horrors of the Syrian civil war have been put on vivid display in an art exhibition that highlights the suffering of children caught up in conflict. 

Haneen, which means “nostalgia” in Arabic, showcases paintings and drawings inspired by the poetry of children who make up some of the 1.1 million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. 

Sponsored by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the exhibition is being held in one of the Lebanese capital’s landmarks, Beit Beirut, an ornate Ottoman-style building that was reduced to ruins by Lebanon’s own period of fratricidal violence from the ‘70s to the ‘90s and later restored.

Read more: http://www.arabnews.com