A Lost Summer: Postcards from Lebanon

An Israeli arrives at London’s Heathrow airport. As he fills out a form, the customs officer asks him, ‘Occupation?’ The Israeli replies, ‘No, thanks, just visiting! I’ve realised why Israel is attacking us again,’ he said with a big smile on his face, ‘it’s because Italy won the World Cup. It’s just like in 1982.’ Posted by Alfred Tarazi, A Lost Summer takes excerpts from emails, blogs, letters, jokes, anecdotes and quotes, collaging them into a heady mix of photographs, drawings and images. Designer Anna Ogden Smith has transformed these into a treasure trove - each page becomes a postcard expressing reactions to the war in Lebanon in July 2006. ‘When I was 2 years old, until I was 5, the worst bombing took place. When my siblings were about the same age, the same acts took place. For a while I thought that war is like chicken pox: it happens to everyone at a certain age.’ Posted by Wadiaa Khoury.