FROM THE CITY THAT EXPLODED SLOWLY -  

Wall-Composition & Text 6 (extract):

The civil war lasted 15 years and ended with an uncertain peace. Some gave way to their desires to erase the city and the city that sparkled at night with thousands of lights was engulfed in a dark void. Each city carries an equation to transform itself: some will go through many strata of crippling history, some become missing cities while others rise vertically to become voracious forests of steel and glass.[..]

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FROM THE CITY THAT EXPLODED SLOWLY -  

Wall-Composition & Text 3 (extract):

 

The war started there, at the very heart of the city. There were no distant frontiers or vast battlefields on plains where battles unfolded. It was among the carts, chairs, chandeliers and ladders that it all began to dissolve. Death arrived among all that noise, and the first mutation of Beirut was by fire.[..] 

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FROM THE CITY THAT EXPLODED SLOWLY -  

Wall-Composition & Text 2 (extract):

 

[..]The square was a mass of friction and noise. I often walked, endlessly, making my way through the crowd trying to elude the gaze of others. I recall the distinct feeling of being elated. This is where, slowly feeling and knowing, that my timidity started receding.