A Living Continuity of Light, Memory, and Lebanese Art

Nouhra means light: one word, carried unchanged across three ancient languages of Lebanon. This website documents the artworks, the stories behind them, and the artists who created them.

Gathered by personal encounters

The collection was built through journeys across Lebanon, marked by conversations, visits, and encounters with artists. Each piece carries the choices of theme, material, style, and texture shaped by those experiences and the people behind them.

Highlights from the Collection

Baraka, 2011

Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui (Lebanon, b. 1945)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

40 × 40 × 3 cm

Acquisition

Acquired directly from artist

Our Heritage in Red, 2015

Jamil Molaeb (Lebanon, b. 1948)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

105 × 155 × 3 cm

Acquisition

Acquired directly from artist

Reflection on ‘Baraka’ Painting

In a single shade of blue, Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui paints what Lebanon has never stopped believing: that blessing survives. A dove carries an olive branch and the word baraka written into its own body, the blessing inseparable from the creature that bears it. Sehnaoui has spent a lifetime painting Lebanon not as something lost, but as an insistent reality she believes will live on.