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The strange tale of the Lebanese space race

9 March 2011

As Yuri Gagarin made orbit, the US and Soviet Union faced competition from an unexpected quarter – an exhibition in the United Arab Emirates shows how

Lebanese Rocket Society: Elements for a monument, an exhibition by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, between 16 March and 16 May 2011

LET me take you back to 1960. It is three years after the launch of Sputnik 1 and is a young mathematics and physics lecturer at in Beirut, Lebanon, with a fascination for rocketry.

At a time when the…

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