The Sursock Museum has been officially out of action for eight years, a long time by any measure. For many, though, its absence has been felt for much longer. “I would say that the museum was absent from the postwar period, for my generation at least,” mused Zeina Arida, the energetic 44-year-old who stepped into the position of director about a year ago. “It was not part of the cultural landscape … It’s as if the museum was somehow asleep for a while.”

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