Walls are barriers by definition, and they can also be windows onto whatever conflict is going on around them: in times of strife they become a means of expression for every community, a canvas for the suppressed. Karam photographs the walls of Beirut and the villages around it, the political posters, the stencils of young graffiti writers, the surfaces still carrying the marks of the war. Not having grown up in Lebanon, she says, is what lets her see them at all, where the local population has long since filed them away with the other mundane furniture of daily life.