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Writing from the people doing the work: restorers, artists, researchers and neighbours.

A tree growing among the ruins of the house

Announcement

Zanzalakht is founded

A Syrian non-profit cultural foundation dedicated to preserving, revitalising and reimagining the country’s cultural life.

The front of Beit Hayat before restoration

Beit Hayat

A house named after Life

Lina Sinjab on her mother, a Damascene courtyard, and two decades of fighting to save one house.

An empty room with arched niches in Beit Hayat

The library

Four thousand books

Two members of the foundation have donated their personal libraries. The collection is ready; the room is not, yet.

Letters from the courtyard

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