Postcards from Beirut Exhibiton & Fundraiser
POSTCARDS FROM BEIRUT
Photography Exhibition & Fundraising for Lebanon
With a Musical Tribute to Ahmad Kaabour
Saturday 11 April 2026 · 18:00
Kulturrummet · Södergatan 101, Helsingborg
The last five years have reshaped Beirut. Economic collapse, explosion, displacement, and ongoing Israeli aggression have altered the city's rhythm — its daily routines, its streetscapes, its people's relationship to home. Yet Beirut persists. Its windows, faces, buildings, and sidewalks carry the traces of everything that has happened, and everything that continues.
Sally Itani and Cynthia Matar are architects and photographers who read cities through their cameras. Their images capture what headlines cannot — the small, stubborn details of urban life in Beirut: a gesture, a threshold, a corner where daily life reasserts itself against the weight of crisis.
The evening includes a musical tribute to Ahmad Kaabour, the iconic Lebanese singer and composer behind Ounadikom, who passed away on 26 March 2026. Local musicians will perform in his memory — a moment connecting Helsingborg with Beirut through music that has carried generations.
Postcards featuring the photographers' work will be available for purchase, with the option to pre-order larger prints. All proceeds — after covering production costs — go directly to support displaced families in Lebanon through trusted individuals.
Sally Itani is a Lebanese architect, urban researcher, and self-taught photographer based in London. Growing up between Beirut and London, her work explores home, identity, and the politics of space — examining how informality, segregation, and systemic injustice manifest in the built environment.
Cynthia Matar is a Beirut-born architect, urban planner, and street photographer. Her work captures the rhythm of city life — the movement, the people, the stories embedded in urban spaces. Starting with Beirut as her first canvas, she has since photographed cities around the world, using photography as a lens for understanding how people inhabit and shape their environments.