The nearly 10,000 Palestinian refugees packed into southern Beirut’s Shatila camp live in makeshift homes of corrugated tin, and many long to return to their homeland. In order to depict life in the camp, artist Abdulrahman Katanani used the only materials he had available to him – scraps.
Originally displaced from villages near Amka, Majd al-Krum and Yajur in northern Palestine in 1948, the Palestinian refugees settled in the Shatila refugee camp around 1949.
Since then they have raised families and tried to eke out some kind of dignified existence in an area of just one square kilometer. It’s not easy to get by with very little money, but life does go on.
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Powerful scrap sculptures depict life in Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp
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