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		Third-Half Passport Collection
Bearer: 1st Generation Palestinian Document: British Passport Context: British Mandate (1920-1948) Authority: High Commissioner for Palestine Validity: 1943 – 1948 Motive: Traveling
Bearer: 2nd Generation Palestinian Document: The Hashemite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan Passport Context: After 1948 Authority: Minister of Interior Validity: 1954 – 1959 Motive: Traveling
Bearer: 2nd Generation Palestinian Document: Lebanese Passport Context: Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Authority: General Security General Director Validity: 1977 – 1980 Motive: Escape trip from Lebanon to France by car
Bearer: 2nd Generation Palestinian Document: Forged Lebanese Passport Context: Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Authority: General Security General Director Validity: 1977 – 1980 Motive: Survival of a Palestinian during war
Bearer: 3rd Generation Palestinian Document: Lebanese Passport Context: Lebanese Prosperity Authority: General Security General Director Validity: 2000 – 2005 Motive: Asserting Palestinian Origin
Bearer: Third-Half Con Document: Self-made Context: Political Divisions Authority: Auto-Security Validity: Now - Self-Expiration Motive: Survival
description:the Third-Half Passport Collection is a compilation of 6 passports, scanned from cover to cover, installed in a grid format and belonging to 3 generations of Palestinians. The collection is a portrait of the Barakeh family’s passage in the midst of war and political turmoil in the Middle East from 1943 till the present. It contextualizes the politics of the region through a series of official stamps, visas, marks, dates and signatures of the controlling authorities. To this historical archive, Zeina Barakeh added a self-created passport, which condenses the various political divisions of that period. The purpose of this addition is to visit a conceptual space of possibility, the Third-Half, which emerges out of the necessity for survival during conflict.