zeina: i've already gone through a lot already.i was shot by a sniper in 1978, i was eight years old, i was at the beach. since then i was an insomniac kid. it's our generation, the war generation, who did not want to forget, who nted to understand and who through these structures, artistic war initiatives. we have been witnessing the non-responsibility of the government and of course civil society that is more and more acting as if it's replacing the state which it's already been doing for the past 30 years. >> although the civil war ended in 1990, it continues to renate in the present. it dominated the heart of beirut for 15 years. then came assassinations, bombings, the economic crash in a state where the government is absent. we don't have a government, but a mafia that preys on the state, says writer elias khoury. elias: it's a residue of the political system that was created after the war which i called the system of permanent civil war. there is no civil war in lebanon but these mafiosos, these heads of different militias, t