How a Beirut graffiti artist is using his murals to try to unite a fragmented city
By Staff Reporter | Sep 29, 2015 04:13 PM EDT
Yazan Halwani is a young Beiruti artist who paints murals of revered Lebanese and Arab figures on prominent walls in a bid to help overcome sectarianism in this fragmented city. “What I try to do,” he explains down a fuzzy line from Beirut, “is write the stories of the city, on its own walls – creating a memory for the city.”