‘A young Homsi’s lens’: An artistic project documenting the streets of Homs through Photography

Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper

By: Yara Badr

Published on: 12/07/2012

Homs, a city that has entered the history books as a disgraceful stain in the march of humanity in the beginning of 21st century. A city whose inhabitants were forced to abandon and its population slaughtered, while world politicians have been arranging the words in their statements, day after day, for more than a year.

Homs, the city where some residential areas have almost entirely been destroyed, had its field and even civic hospitals bombarded, its media centers shelled in order to eliminate the alleged ‘armed gangs’. The city, that by now, the entire world has become familiar with its neighborhoods, including ‘Baba Amr’, ‘Bab Al-Sbaa’, ‘Jouret Al-Shayyah’, ‘Al-Qarabis’, etc… . استمر في القراءة