Kuwait- Sursock Museum organizes Regards sur Beyrouth: 160 ans d'images
Date
1/19/2016 2:16:11 AM
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) (Photo Feature)
By Ayoub Khadaj
BEIRUT Jan 19 (KUNA) -- Sursock Museum in the Lebanese capital of Beirut organized "Regards sur Beyrouth: 160 ans d'images" exhibition on Tuesday.
The exhibition is "bringing together over 240 rarely seen works from private collections - including paintings photographs and etchings - of the city's [Beirut] historical evolution from a provincial Ottoman town to the capital of a nation state from 1800 to 1960" the Museum's Media Department chief Muriel Kahwaji told KUNA.
With a trajectory spanning 160 years Beirut's urban and social transformations are examined through six aspects of its geography: the panorama the port the city the coast the provinces and the surrounding hillsides she added. (end) ayb.nfm
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