ATLAS GROUP / Walid Raad

Notebook, volume 38 : Already been in a Lake of Fire 1991 Paris

This image is an extract from a notebook in the archives of doctor Fakhouri that lists the cars that have been used for bombs between 1975 and 1991. Each page of the notebook contains a collage of an image of a car with the same make, model and...

Missing Lebanese Wars, Linguistic 1996, 2002 Paris

It is a little known fact that Lebanese historians were also gamblers during the war. They met every Sunday at the race courses. Race after race, the historians were positioned behind the press photographers who were there to take a picture of...

Missing Lebanese Wars, Linguistic 1996, 2002 Paris

It is a little known fact that Lebanese historians were also gamblers during the war. They met every Sunday at the race courses. Race after race, the historians were positioned behind the press photographers who were there to take a picture of...

The Atlas Group is a project established in Beirut in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group locates, preserves, studies and produces audio, visual, literary and other documents that shed light on this history. The documents are preserved in The Atlas Group Archive which is located in Beirut and New York.

Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon.

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