Meeting with Manal Salamé

1 place d'Armagnac, 33000 Bordeaux

Manal Salamé is a Libano-French author. A writer, poet and photographer, she lives between Paris and Beirut. After several years in fashion, she focuses on street photography. Her artworks deal with exile, absence, the search for identity and social movements. In her debut novel Habibi Beyrouth, the reader follows Amal, who returns to Beirut after seventeen years in France to obtain an ID card. But what was to be just a simple formality turns out to be much more complicated than expected and Amal must extend her stay. Her administrative procedures…