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Handcrafted Repairs

Handcrafted Repairs - Lebanese musicians - Arabic music - Lebanese music - Lebanese instrument

Where broken instruments learn to sing again

Lebanon's craftsmen revive broken instruments, preserving the music, memories, and stories carried within them.

By The Beiruter
Handcrafted Repairs - Traditional craftsmanship - Lebanese heritage crafts - Craftsmanship - Traditional Crafts - Heritage Crafts

The last coppersmiths of Lebanon

Raymond Morkos and Hala Haikal are preserving Lebanon’s centuries-old copper and brass craft as traditional metalworking faces a shrinking market.

By The Beiruter
Handcrafted Repairs - Lebanese silk - Craftsmanship - Traditional Crafts - Heritage Crafts

The ancient handloom art of Mount Lebanon

The nawl reflects generations of Lebanese craftsmanship, turning a simple thread into intricate textiles through skill, patience and precision.

By The Beiruter
Handcrafted Repairs - vintage clothing - Lebanese craftsmanship - Lebanese crafts - Lebanon leather industry

The vanishing craft of Lebanon's cobblers

A disappearing Lebanese craft kept alive by two cobblers who refuse to let generations of skill, memory, and repair culture vanish.

By The Beiruter
Handcrafted Repairs - Lebanese heritage crafts - Lebanese radio history - Radio Lebanon - Heritage Crafts

Radio repair… an act of memory

Two aging radio repairmen preserve a disappearing Lebanese craft, and the memories embedded in the machines they keep alive.

By Jenna Geagea
Handcrafted Repairs - Watch repairers - Traditional Crafts - Lebanese Artisans - Heritage Crafts

Keepers of time… Lebanon’s watch repairers

Lebanon’s aging watch repairers keep a disappearing craft alive, preserving decades of skill, memory, and patience in small village workshops.

By Jenna Geagea