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    NEW STREET PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK CHRONICLES THE LEGACY OF BOURJ HAMMOUD

    12:41, April 16, 2015

    Beirut Neighborhood Became Home to Thousands of Armenian Genocide
    Survivors

    On the occasion of the Armenian Genocide Centennial and the 40th
    anniversary of the start of the Lebanese Civil War, filmmaker
    and documentarian Ara Madzounian is releasing a book of original
    photographs that chronicles Bourj Hammoud, the Beirut suburb which
    became home for Armenian Genocide survivors.

    Madzounian, who was born in Bourj Hammoud to parents who survived
    the Armenian Genocide, has been at the helm of scores of Armenian
    and non-Armenian multimedia projects around the world. His resume
    includes directing films, documentaries, producing popular music and
    telethons and performing theatrical productions.

    After wrapping up his feature cinematography work on the feature film
    Meltdown, to be released in August, he is turning his focus on BIRD'S
    NEST, a published book of talking pictures and essays by a selected
    group of academicians, writers and artists.

    "I wanted to create a lasting legacy about this place," says
    Madzounian. "For more than 50 years, Bourj Hammoud served as the
    cultural, intellectual and political beacon for the Armenian Diaspora."

    BIRD'S NEST is the culmination of Madzounian's laborious and
    emotion-provoking work to capture the soul and preserve the memories
    of his birthplace, one of the first post-Genocide communities to
    be established.

    For generations, Bourj Hammoud was the safe harbor that allowed broken
    families to get on their feet again after one of the most tragic
    chapters in their history. In the safety of Lebanon, the community
    flourished before it abruptly found itself in the middle of their
    host nation's civil war.

    "Ara's photographs of the faces, the streets, the old buildings and the
    narrow alleyways of Bourj Hammoud recall to me all of the richness of
    the place, the personal histories and the grand narratives of the past
    hundred years," says cultural anthropologist at the Kevorkian Center
    for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, Joanne Randa Nucho.

    A Kickstarter campaign launched on April 13th, the 40th anniversary of
    the start of the Lebanese civil war that began in 1975 and continued
    until 1990. Crowdsourcing will fund the costs of publishing BIRD'S
    NEST, a book of photographs Nucho says capture "the ephemeral moments
    of life in this place."

    To support the project and purchase a copy of the book, please go to:
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdsnest/birds-nest-a-photographic-essay-of-bourj-hammoud-l

    "These photographs are an amazing legacy to a vanishing pocket of
    Armenian culture," says Oscar nominated director Atom Egoyan. "For
    those who have never visited Bourj Hammoud, the fabled Armenian
    neighborhood in Beirut, this collection will be overwhelming."

    http://hetq.am/eng/news/59672/new-street-photography-book-chronicles-the-legacy-of-bourj-hammoud.html

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