Haneen: A Collective Work of Lebanese and Syrian Artists on the Impact of War on Childhood

Two nationalities, Lebanese and Syrian, speaking with one voice, echoing memories of war across time and geography. 39 poems and stories written by Syrian children in different informal tented settlements in Lebanon, were interpreted by 47 Lebanese and Syrian artists. Visit http://tracingvoices.com/haneen.html for more information UNICEF Lebanon together with Beyond Association and Yelostudio, worked together to interpret narratives of Syrian refugee children through art: expressions of displacement, loss, fear, struggle, trauma, hope, future, and past. The Arabic word Haneen captures everything the children would have liked to tell us. Haneen means longing, yearning for something you’ve lost, a tender feeling. In this context, it’s the nostalgic longing of a long lost home, of a world that is no more. That is their reality.