Drawing Lines: A Journey Through the Streets of Beirut

Drawing Lines takes you on a journey through the streets of Beirut in search of the essence of Lebanese Identity. Using graffiti as it's lens, it traces the artists quest for hope, revolt and iconography while tagging the walls of the city through the years of war and beyond it. Each page tells a different story, through captivating photos of street art across Beirut, coupled with moving commentary, probing into lost Lebanese identity. As citizens of a country that holds many secrets and stories, we are unable to define who we are. "I saw identity through their eyes, and ultimately discovered that there are many lenses of observation, and through that lens I saw many circles of identity, one encompassing the other." Tamara Zantout is a writer, designer, director and founder of the Urban Fusion. With multiple degrees both at the undergraduate and graduate level from Architecture at the Architectural Association in London to Economics to a Masters in Urban Planning, she has worked in various fields some in Economic journalism and the UN and others in the fields of design and production as well as Saatchi in advertising. She has acted as copywriter for several novels and large projects. She founded the Urban Fusion in 2013. She then moved on to create theurbanfusion.com which began as an interdisciplinary platform for artists and designers and now serves as a platform for art books.