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Zena El Khalil has opened a new exhibition in Beit Beirut, in the centre of the capital.                          STORYLINE:        ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              A Lebanese artist's work seeks to heal the scars of the country's war.\u003cbr/\u003e              Zena El Khalil has opened a new exhibition in Beit Beirut, in the centre of the capital.            \u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              This Reiki session is taking place in the middle of a museum in Beirut.\u003cbr/\u003e              It is the brainchild of Lebanese artist Zena El Khalil whose newest exhibition taps into wounds more than forty years old in war-scarred Lebanon. \u003cbr/\u003e              El Khalil's project - a combination of paintings, photographs, videos, installations and recorded poetry - followed years of work in over 100 locations around the country affected by violence. \u003cbr/\u003e              Between Lebanon's civil war, its wars with Israel, political assassinations and suicide bombings, El Khalil said she set out to engage with the space, to transform the negative energy left over from the violence, and turn them - through a series of healing ceremonies - into positive energy. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"This building is going to become the museum of the memory of the city, so I wanted to create a piece in memory of the 17,000 still declared missing,\" explains El Khalil.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The exhibition is trying to plant the seeds of dialogue for reconciliation and healing. After the war ended we never had a healing process; we never had a reconciliation. And so if we are going to move forward on this path it is very important not to forget those who do not have voices, who can't speak for themselves.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Each of the green sticks symbolises one of the 17,000 missing, some even painted by loved ones still seeking answers.\u003cbr/\u003e              Elsewhere in the building are photographs and paintings created by El Khalil who has been working on the project for years.\u003cbr/\u003e              She began her project 17 years ago, when she visited her family home in south Lebanon for the first time after Israel's withdrawal in the year 2000 following years of occupation. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I first started by working in places that endured a lot of violence. And this all began with my family home because my family home was occupied by the Israeli army for over 20 years and it was used as a military detention centre. So in my home, people were tortured, were held prisoners. And so the first healing work I needed to do was in my family home.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              In her family's Beirut home, she points out where a bomb had dropped through the roof during the war.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I continued to work in other sites where great violence or trauma occurred, in spaces where I felt have not been healed or there has not been reconciliation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              It is on the roof where El Khalil performed her healing ceremony in a special outfit. And where she went on to create some of her paintings.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The process itself actually involves me putting the canvas on the floor and then I work directly on the floor, using the special ink that I have created. And I use veils and kiffeyehs to paint with.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Pulling her work together, she has now opened the \"Sacred Catastrophe: Healing Lebanon\" exhibition which is hosted in a nearly 100 years old building in the centre of Beirut, a living memory of the country's 1975-1990 civil war. \u003cbr/\u003e              Beit Beirut (House of Beirut) building is pockmarked itself and riddled with bullet holes - the building stands on the former demarcation line that bisected Beirut into warring sections: east and west, Muslims and Christians. \u003cbr/\u003e              It was transformed from a residential building into a sniper location used by one of the warring factions. \u003cbr/\u003e              A visit by the US Ambassador to Lebanon gives El Khalil the chance to explain her work to someone who witnessed the war from abroad.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"When we are in Beirut it is so easy to focus on the war and what happened and who was at fault and who wasn't at fault. And what they did to each other. And there is not enough focus on what happens after that and how all of us, people who were here and lived it and those of us who were outside and watched it, how do all of us heal from this,\" says ambassador Elizabeth Holzhall Richard.\u003cbr/\u003e              She thinks what El Khalil has done \"has finally put the spotlight on something that is long, long overdue\".\u003cbr/\u003e              The exhibit has turned Beit Beirut into a beehive of activities and workshop, all around the healing theme. \u003cbr/\u003e              One workshop asked visitors to sew wool patches they make on looms to cover bullet marks around the museum, to symbolically heal the war wounds. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The idea that each of us picks a hole, a bullet and sews patiently and in harmony with the place some wool, like a small carpet to cover the marks of the war, the shrapnel. The idea is to heal the wound, symbolically healing the wound of the nation, your own and the group,\" says workshop participant Soha Nasreddine.\u003cbr/\u003e              All generations are invited to participate in the various workshops.\u003cbr/\u003e              Children are invited to paint mantras El Khalil had used in her healing ceremonies. \u003cbr/\u003e              At the end of the civil war, a general amnesty was issued and the subject has never been formally discussed. \u003cbr/\u003e              Students in school don't study the war's history because officials can't agree on which version of the conflict to include in textbooks. \u003cbr/\u003e              But El Khalil thinks the healing process has to begin with the personal.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Beirut - 26 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Moving shot toward a Reiki workshop performed in the museum for visitors\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Artist Zena El Khalil at the Reiki workshop \u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zena El Khalil, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This building is going to become the museum of the memory of the city, and so I wanted to create a piece in memory of the 17,000 still declared missing. The exhibition is trying to plant the seeds of dialogue for reconciliation and healing. After the war ended we never had a healing process, we never had a reconciliation. And so if we are going to move forward on this path it is very important not to forget those who do not have voices, who cannot speak for themselves.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Visitor walking through the installation of 17,000 green sticks for the missing\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Visitors walking through the exhibit\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Visitors looking at a photograph\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Close of the photograph\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Zena El Khalil, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I first started by working in places that endured a lot of violence. And this all began with my family home because my family home was occupied by the Israeli army for over 20 years and it was used as a military detention centre. So in my home, people were tortured, were held prisoners. And so the first healing work I needed to do was in my family home.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. El Khalil showing where a bomb fell in her family home\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Zena El Khalil, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So for example with this painting here, this is in an abandoned space, not too far from where the former US embassy was. This was near the site where the explosion took place in the early 80s. And I continued to work in other sites where great violence or trauma occurred, in spaces where I felt have not been healed or there has not been reconciliation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various of El Khalil on the roof as part of the healing ceremony\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Zena El Khalil, artist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The process itself actually involves me putting the canvas on the floor and then I work directly on the floor, using the special ink that I have created. And I use veils and kiffeyehs to paint with.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Various of El Khalil showing how she uses a kiffeyeh to paint and the dress she wears to perform the ceremony\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Various of Beit Beirut museum and gallery building\u003cbr/\u003e              15. El Khalil giving the US ambassador to Lebanon a tour of her exhibit\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Holzhall Richard, US ambassador to Lebanon:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"When we are in Beirut it is so easy to focus on the war and what happened and who was at fault and who wasn't at fault. And what they did to each other. And there is not enough focus on what happens after that and how all of us, people who were here and lived it and those of us who were outside and watched it, how do all of us heal from this, reconcile with each another, and move forward to a much more productive future. So what she has done here has finally put the spotlight on something that's long, long overdue.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various of visitors inspecting a bullet hole in the wall\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Various of women in museum sitting at looms\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (English) Soha Nasreddine, workshop participant:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The idea that each of us picks a hole, a bullet and sews patiently and in harmony with the place some wool, like a small carpet to cover the marks of the war, the shrapnel. The idea is to heal the wound, symbolically healing the wound of the nation, your own and the group.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Various of painted image on the wall reading (Arabic) \"Forgiveness\"\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various of artist with children in a workshop painting the exhibition's mantras\u003cbr/\u003e              22. Various of the painted mantra \u003cbr/\u003e              23. 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