Place des Martyres (paintings)
Series of paintings by Nabil Kanso / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Place des Martyres is the title of a series of over 250 watercolors and drawings executed in New York and Beirut between 1971 and 1974 by Nabil Kanso.[1] The subjects of the works in the series are based on the women headquartered in the red-light district of Beirut city center called el Bourj, and after World War I[2] named Place des Martyrs (French for Martyrsā Place)[3] in memory of dozens of Arab nationalists who were hanged in 1915-16 during Ottoman rule.[4]