A lost Lebanon – in pictures

Posted by: adonis49 on: September 12, 2014

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A lost Lebanon – in pictures

When artist Ania Dabrowska started working with Diab Alkarssifi, a homeless Lebanese man in London, she made a startling discovery.

Diab was a compulsive photographer with a hoard of unseen pictures from his homeland.

Diab has saved more than 27,000 pictures

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• The Observer, Saturday 6 September 2014

Young men standing by a pool in the 70s Diab Alkarssifi Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Millitary skiing championships in the Cedar mountains Diab Alkarssifi

Posed portrait of an unknown woman Diab Alkarssifi Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Fatima Hammdo in traditional dress and army uniform in the 1970s Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Diab Alkarssifi with a friend in the 1980s Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Miss Universe Georgina Rizk visiting Baalbek in 1977 Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Diab’s wife, Ietedal, in 1989 Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

A state visit of King Saud bin Abdul Aziz to Baalbek Temple in 1966 Diab Alkarssifi Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Baalbeck festival, 1970s Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Ashad’s Mother, Chlifa village, 1984 Diab Alkarssifi Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi

Political martyrs memorial rally, Almarg village, 1977 Diab Alkarssifi Photograph: Diab Alkarssifi
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