The Beirut Journal for Radical Activation
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Click here to download the new Spring 2012 Edition. Please print and share. (English/Arabic)
Click here to download the Winter 2012 Edition. Please print and share.  (English) (Arabic)

2011 was a busy year for activists, from the Arab uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, Libya and Syria to the Occupy movement across the United States and Europe.  The Beirut Journal for Radical Activation was an attempt to link the global struggles for freedom, equality and justice with my local environment during a one-year residency in Lebanon, studying under Emily Jacir, a contemporary Palestinian artist,
through the Homeworkspace Program at Ashkal Alwan.  

Part research journey, part social experiment, part sanity exercise, the Beirut Journal served both as a way to reach out towards the Lebanese community and those I met during the year abroad and as a document of a specific and exciting moment in our collective struggle.  The people interviewed and the pieces solicited point to not a universality of vision or voice but to a rich diversity of opinion and points of view.  Yet underlying it all I saw fierce strength of vision and of place, demand for equality and human rights. Regional specificities rang out, echoed by global calls for greater accountability and solidarity between peoples and with the natural world. (you can view the work online at: http://sarahfarahat.weebly.com/beirut-journal.html) 
photos by Valerio del Baglivo, Dan Kuitka, Sarah Farahat (left to right)