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Beirut features a selection of works from Manal Abu-Shaheen’s ongoing photographic series. Shot in the city where she was born, this series explores the advertising images, much of it western advertising, and real estate development that overlap with Beirut's halting attempts to rebuild after conflict.

Motivated by a lack of visual history of the landscape in Lebanon, Abu-Shaheen set out to construct her own photographic archive of contemporary Beirut — a cityscape dominated by advertising billboards purporting mythologized western ideals of luxury, pleasure, and excess that are …