Driven from their land, 750,000 Palestinians fled their homeland in 1948.
Today the United Nations identifies 5,201,419 Palestinian refugees living in unacceptable conditions, crammed into 59 camps scattered across the Middle East:
Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan…
In Lebanon, nearly 500,000 Palestinians (survive) live in 12 official camps without civil or political rights.
Tarek Charara offers us, through “in the shadow of Chatila”, a tender and unusual image of the inhabitants of the best-known Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Leaving aside differences, Tarek Charara focuses on what brings people together, slices of life which, against a backdrop of tragic misfortune, contain all the elements of an almost “normal” daily life.
