Letters From Beirut: The War of 33

Letters From Beirut: The War of 33 (33 relates to the 33 days and nights that Beirut and Southern Lebanon were exposed to catastrophic aerial and ground assault by Israel ) it is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman - a mother living through the war in Beirut - carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she lives the war with -- the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday Lebanese, struggling to maintain their sanity and their humanity during a time of war. Letters From Beirut is more than a document of a particular historical experience. What emerges is a universal story -- a complex picture of love, pain, resistance and survival in the face of uncertainty and violence.