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In Lebanon, a Canadian artist is painting through tragedy - Ricochet

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Witness the resilience of a Canadian artist in Lebanon. He paints the impact of bombardment while reflecting on loss and survival.

At least 50 air raids. More than 100 shellings. Thousands of homes flattened. In a single day, over 30 civilians were killed in Israeli strikes. Dozens of children killed. Entire families wiped out. Lebanese-Canadian engineer and artist Hicham Takache has been documenting the toll from his hometown of Nabatieh in messages sent over the past month — through both text and paint. “My city was bombarded several times,” he wrote to me recently, apologizing for his delay in response to my questions two days before. He was again displaced in Sidon, not far from where they used to live, looking for a

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