A singer's lost film was found in an archiveSourced
She thought her film was gone.
It resurfaced 35 years later.
A 1973 short film of singer Zeinab Shaath was among cultural materials seized by Israeli forces during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Shaath believed it had been destroyed. Researcher Rona Sela found it in an Israeli military archive in 2017 and contacted her.
The film survived
where she could not see it.
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