Beirut: The Aftermath
LAU Beirut Campus - Safadi Fine Arts Buildings - Gulbenkian Theater
The LAU School of Arts and Sciences cordially invites you
to the screening of the award-winning film
Beirut: The Aftermath
by Fadia Ahmad
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About the filmmaker
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Fadia Ahmad is an artist and filmmaker.
Her practice focuses largely on creating narratives through her photography. She has created several series of portraits and landscapes, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Engaged in humanitarian issues, she released two series of photographs and films about refugees in Lebanon titled It Could Be You.
In 2002, she began the Beyrouth | Beirut series, an homage to the urban environment, complex demographics and nostalgic architecture of Lebanon’s capital, which was originally intended as a traveling exhibition. Its first destination was Beit Beirut in 2019, a historic house museum built in 1924 and located on the historic Green Line (Lebanon) which separated East and West Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. The exhibition was later staged at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman.
About the film
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Beirut, the Aftermath, Fadia Ahmad’s first feature documentary film, was launched in 2021. In it, Ahmad seeks to portray the aftermath of the explosion that shook Lebanon to its core. The film was selected for many film festivals and won several awards.
Thursday’s screening is open to students, faculty and staff.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.