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Bonus photos for “War Stories”

by Rita Leistner

Haret Hreik, Beirut -- Mahmood Kasim's family had lived in the Hassoon Building in Haret Hreik (in front of yellow striped building) for generations (long before the existence of Hezbollah). He and his wife, Sausan, had met in the bomb shelter in the building's basement during the 1982 Israeli invasion. During the summer 2006 war, as his neighborhood crumbled around him under Israeli bombardments, Mahmood, amazingly, never fled to safety with the rest of his family, choosing instead to remain and protect what he could of the only place the Kasim's ever knew as home.

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Anonymous: amazing! August 18, 2007 04:03 EST

margaret clare ford: This is the universal face of war and it makes me weep. Bombed myself as a child more than half a century ago, I realise now that the nationalities of both the victims and the bombers are irrelevant. It is always, whatever the pretext, simply violence perpetrated upon the innocent by those with a mind to violence. It must stop, we must find a way to stop it, but after a lifetime working for peace there are times when I come near to despair. Work such as yours gives me the heart to continue.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for these photographs. One function of an artist is to enlarge the imagination, and you have done that splendidly. August 22, 2007 01:58 EST

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