Akram Zaatari, “Interview with Akram Zaatari” — Julia Kozakiewicz | via The White Review, March 2023
“Akram Zaatari was born in Saida, Lebanon in 1966. While growing up, armed conflict and a perpetual crisis loomed over everyday life. At a young age he began documenting life in Saida under Israeli occupation, taking photographs and collecting documents and objects specific to the culture and political landscape of the time. Zaatari revisited some of these documents, oral histories and photographs in the installation ‘Letter to a Refusing Pilot’, while representing Lebanon at the 55th Venice Biennial in 2013.”