June 2023: From Sursock to Salon

A blend of the before and after

A wall within the “Allo Beirut” exhibit at Beit Beirut, June 2023

Last Friday, I attended the screening of Mai Masri’s Beirut: Eye of the Storm at the newly reopened Sursock Museum. I registered to go without thinking much about it and it wasn’t until I was sitting in the underground auditorium that the thought hit me: wait, this is about the October 17t…