This chapter delves into the relationship between monuments and collective memory, highlighting the ephemeral and controversial nature of monuments and the meanings attached to them. It also showcases a number of contemporary Lebanese diasporic art 'counter-monuments'.

This publication asks why do individuals feel compelled to commemorate victims of atrocity in other nations through social media outlets? and what implications might these acts have on the future of the contemporary nation-state model?

Art on a Green Line is an exhibition featuring Transnational Lebanese artists whose works revisit and explore the “Green Line,” which separated East and West Beirut during the 1975-90 wars in Lebanon. It was originally held at the Carleton University Art Gallery, between 19 Jan. - 14 April 2015.

This 3 min video introduces my M.A. research on contemporary transnational representations of the Lebanese wars (Keywords: art, memory, war, diaspora, representation).

In this essay, I present the artwork Faces (2009) by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige as a case study of the War Generation Artists’ alternative representations of martyrs, or counter-monuments, in Lebanon ... conclude by classifying this artwork as Faux-Ephemeral-Art

In this book chapter, I introduce the work of a group of transnational intellectuals from the Lebanese War Generation who commonly use contemporary art practices to write alternative histories of the Lebanese wars and represent the ongoing Lebanese national trauma...

A video of my conference presentation at the Hisnley Hall, Leeds. (22 min)

National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Review.