About Fawwaz Traboulsi · Personal album

A Life in Photographs

Photographs from the author’s own collection, from Mashghara to the squares of October 2019. Home and journeys, books and newspapers, encounters and commitments: a life in six chapters.

Begin
Mahmoud Darwish, the pigeons take flight

Chapter 1

Beginnings

The first family photographs

Odette and Najib, mother and father
Fawwaz and Amal, childhood
Najib, Zaytouneh
Odette and Nawal

Chapter 2

Mashghara and Zahleh

Roots on both sides

The Maalouf family
Issa Iskandar al-Maalouf
Jameel Maalouf
Riad Maalouf
The tannery, Machghara
Hotel Semiramis, Bhamdoun
Najib, Kamal Jumblatt and Pierre Eddé

Chapter 3

Struggle and Solidarity

From Dhofar to the squares of 2019

Dhofar, 1970
Dhofar, the revolution's goats, 1970
Abdel Fattah Ismail, Aden
Jaafar Hassan, Aden
A qat session, Aden
Kamal Jumblatt, seminar on Yemen
Demonstration in support of Kfarshouba, 1975
Shiyyah, 1975
Abu Ammar during the siege of Beirut, 1982
With the Fatah leadership
George Hawi, Arnoun / Beaufort
George Hawi, Paris
Fidel Castro
Lebanese National Movement delegation, Berlin Lebanese National Movement delegation visit
Arab–African solidarity, Addis Ababa Arab-African solidarity gathering
Jalal Talabani, Kurdistan, 2000
Khaled Ali and Mohammad Zbeeb, Cairo
A rose for Qana Tribute to Qana
The October 17 movement, 2019 October 17 protest movement

Chapter 4

Public Life

Encounters, books, ideas

Edward and Mariam Said
Mahmoud Darwish and Nawal Abboud
Eric Rouleau
Juan Goytisolo
Noam Chomsky and Habib Sadeq
Noam Chomsky, Khiam
Arundhati Roy, Aynab
Edward Said's stone
Mahmoud Darwish, France
Elias Khoury
Adonis and Chawki Abdelamir
Saadi Youssef and Sonallah Ibrahim
Mahmoud Darwish, the pigeons take flight
Etel Adnan
Maroun Baghdadi
Abdelilah Belkeziz and Abdel Samad Belkebir
Asmaa Azaizeh and Khaled Khalifa
Abou Gibran
Hussein Mroueh
Karim Mroueh

Chapter 5

Journalism and Publishing

Newspapers, journals, publishers

Joseph and Fawwaz, drawn by Mohieddin Ellabbad
Muhammad Dakroub
Fakhri Karim
Jarallah Omar and Joseph Samaha
Riad Al-Rayess and Fatmeh Baydoun
Riad Al-Rayess
Lecture
Book signing with friends

Chapter 6

Family

Nawal, Jana, and the days shared

Odette and Nawal
Nawal and Fawwaz
Jana as a child, France
Jana and Fawwaz
Jana, photograph 1
John Berger and Jana
John Berger and Nawal
Hanan, Asmara and Jana, family
Nawal, photograph 2
On the Nile
Discovering the iPad
Nour Adnan welcomes the light