Discovery in 1960s print media: an excellent photograph of Syrian artist Fateh al-Moudarres, printed amid a feature in Mid East journal (November/December 1968) on artists working in Beirut, a “Paris of the Middle East.” The feature’s texts are mostly drawn from interviews conducted by a student named Mary Alice Lee, who was then attending AUB. But al-Moudarres seems to have supplied a text he had initially written for a 1963 exhibition at Gallery One. It’s a key statement on his thinking about the ethics of his painting, including his use of sand and mixed media on the surface of his work. I have long struggled to translate it, so it is a delight to encounter this very good translation into English, completed by an unknown translator for the journal! One small change I find interesting: in the Arabic, in 1963, he is saying that the paintings show or represent his optimistic side. In the version printed in English in 1968, agency is more firmly placed with the artist as commander of magical relationships between images and spectators.