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Freedom Recalled runs until January 11 at Beit Beirut in Lebanon. Photo: Robert McKelvey

An artist-led exhibition reckons with Lebanon’s trauma

Freedom Recalled brings together 36 artists to confront the country's scars from the civil war to today

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