15/06/2026
Today I attended the launch of the rehabilitation of Lebanon’s public library network at the Ministry of Culture.
Libraries preserve more than books.
They preserve memory.
They preserve questions.
They preserve the evidence of how a society understood itself at a particular moment in time.
Listening to the discussions, meeting Minister Ghassan Salamé, and walking through the National Library, I found myself thinking about a project I have been quietly developing for years.
What began as an attempt to document the journey of building Coqlico gradually became something larger: an investigation into creativity, uncertainty, production, failure, persistence, and the survival of dreams.
The manuscript is called “The Dream in the Dreams Killer Country”.
It remains unfinished.
But today was a reminder that preserving knowledge is not only the responsibility of institutions. Sometimes it begins with a notebook, a photograph, a prototype, a document, or a story someone decides is worth keeping.
The work continues.
