Painting that Paul Guiragossian refused to leave behind is on show in Abu Dhabi

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United Arab Emirates

Manuella Guiragossian recalls the shelling and gunfire, the family rushing out of the house and towards the shelters. She recalls the painting her father Paul would remove from the wall, from its place above the piano, and bring with him as if “it was a member of the family”. She remembers this detail as a speckle of warmth in an otherwise traumatic cycle during the Lebanese Civil War. As a young…

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