Documenting Living Across Difference
For those who are not familiar with Yoga, this may sound like a hobby for dedicated vegan hippies flexing your limbs to every direction which you can’t even think of. At least, this is what I thought before I start practicing Yoga. Yoga has various forms, or disciplines, and the intensity and the quality of …
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Guest post by Satoshi Being a Japanese non-fiction writer living in London for many years, I’ve travelled many countries and I don’t even remember how many countries I’ve been. However, Beirut in Lebanon was my un-known territory, especially I don’t speak Arabic apart from saying a few greeting words. I was on a mission to …
Sunday morning April 28, 2019, we decided to have a Beit Al Atlas meeting outside of Beit, down the street along the Manara at Rawda Cafe, a local open air restaurant/cafe and Beirut trademark. Resident dogs Lulu and Bodhi tagged along with us. Our dogs make for quite an interesting contribution to Beit’s expanding sense …
I’ve lived a nomadic life for a year and a half now. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that it never gets easier to leave a place, to leave a project, to part from friends. I want to thank everyone who came to our workshops at Beit al-Atlas and near Burj Barajneh, everyone who …
When I first envisioned creating a series of workshops for Beit al-Atlas, I began by thinking about place. What had brought me to Beirut? What relationship did I have with the city and its residents? What does it mean for me to call this city home, if even for a short time? This is why …