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TITLE: Al-Yom Today torn curled folded
Photographs (of photographs) and
editorial design: paula roush
Source: Arab Image Foundation
Text: Elie-Pierre Sabbag, from the novel
'L’Ombre d’Une Ville'
MEDIUM: photobook
PAGES: 48 (photo-text block) + 20 (pamphlet)
DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29,7 cm (photo-text), 20x 14.3 (pamphlet),
30 x 23.1 x 1 cm (enclosure)
PAPER: 120 gsm fabriano (photo-text),
80 gsm vericolor (pamphlet), 300gsm gold card
stock (enclosure)
BINDING: loose leaf in enclosure
PROCESS: Laser
COLOUR: Colour
First edition of 300 copies
Published in Beirut in October 2015with Plan BEY
Year: 2015
Second edition of 300 copies
Published in London by msdm publications
YEAR: 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7390996-7-1

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This book is composed of photographs of a collection of damaged photographs from the Al-Yom newspaper [1937 – 1975] currently stored at the Arab Image Foundation and text sampled from Elie-Pierre Sabbagh L’Ombre d’Une Ville, a book about Beirut in the aftermath of the war.

It is an experiment with the genre of the photo-essay, an attempt to work side by side with a collection of damaged photographs and text sampled from a book by the Beirut-based writer and architect Elie-Pierre Sabbagh.

The Al-Yom collection has been temporarily held in storage boxes at the Arab Image Foundation waiting to be catalogued and re-housed in safe archiving material, until it is ultimately digitised and made available for online access.

Al-Yom was founded by Afif el Tibi, the father of Lebanese journalism in 1937 and closed in 1975 when armed militia stormed the building giving the staff half-hour to leave the building. The collection was brought in by AIF former director Zeina Arida who found it after Walid El Tibi’s, the newspaper’s editor, passed away and the apartment where he lived was cleared out.