Noah's Grandchildren

Shams, an elderly painter, lost his hand with which he painted in the explosion that targeted the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 and led to his assassination. As a child, he had lived in Cuba. As a teenager, he lived with his mother in her country, Lebanon, after which he moved to many countries between Paris, Canada and before returning to Beirut. He sits daily in a coffee shop in Central