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All artworks by Tarek Chemaly |
The 1958 Blue Bat Operation in Lebanon might not be well known in today's world, 14 thousand US troops were shipped here to maintain order in a country on the brink of civil war (yes, since then the pot has been boiling!)... In the words of a combat ready Marine "
It’s better than Korea, but what the hell is it?"... Indeed what the hell is it? I have decided to revisit documents from the era and transform them into artworks as part of our collective Lebanese memory.