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The tale of Nawwara - in its Arabic universal poetic symbols - is simple yet magical. It is a dazzling tale interlaced with Arabic/oriental magic. “Nawwara” is a highly visual and fantastic narrative tale that unveils the magical adventures of a 13-year-old girl with a heroic role to play in a constantly disturbed area of the world. Like in all magical tales, Nawwara’s story is told through a narrator, an ancient Arab manuscript, secretly hidden for a thousand years and more in Nawwara’s house at the center of a desolate desert. `The Journey of Nawwara” recounts the story of a nation that has lost its golden compass although not it’s glow and is directed both to young adults and adults. Author and artist Mimosa Al Arawi wrote Nawwara’s tale as a poetically narrated art work where reality and imagination combine to intensely connect fantasy with authenticity and words with images.

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It was just like any other day, being stuck in Beirut traffic with nothing to do but look around when I noticed the Arabic word Mahrooseh (protected) on the back of a large truck in front of me. As I was there for a while, I started noticing the detailed art and hand-drawn vernacular calligraphy, the evil eye, the cedars and many decorative patterns. That was when I was inspired to begin this journey of photographing and documenting as many trucks as I could all over Lebanon. Lebanon, a country that is small in size, yet large in its cultural diversity. From its rare and beautiful traditions are the sayings on most trucks, especially the ones for goods transportation that are common across the country. Wherever you are you will rarely find a truck without a proverb painted on it; be it a saying, a joke, part of a song, or a passing thought. They are beautifully decorated to elaborate the meaning. But most of them are used to ward off the evil eye.

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