Exhibition at the Lebanese Consulate of New York, organized by Kaflab Foundation, 2015
When I moved to live at Alexander Fleming Street back in 2003, my dad has dropped me down to my new apartment and he asked me how the hell am I going to live there. Alexander Fleming street is located in Mar Mikhael area in Beirut, a war zone during the civil war in Lebanon and a hip area 10 years after I moved there.
“Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance benzyl penicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy.” (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Welcome to Alexander Fleming Street!