Laban and jam, or how my mother became Lebanese

Lena Merhej draws her mother’s journey on her black and white drawing boards. Her German mother settled in Lebanon in the sixties. Lena, reminisces about her childhood memories and family anecdotes. She questions her mother’s identity, a doctor and activist in a Lebanon torn apart by wars. She transcends her personal story with humour and poetry and plays with clichés about East and West, a call out on dual culture and plural identity.

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