Since its inception in 1998, Nadi Lekol Nas promotes and disseminates Arabic and Lebanese artistic productions including theatres, musical concerts, art exhibitions, book signings, conferences and debates. These events largely deal with the past of the Arab world and the lived experiences of loss, suffering and exile. It hosted various works and dialogues on dealing with the Lebanese legacy of violence and the Civil War.

Drama therapy and other forms of art therapy workshops, including group storytelling and group writing to deal with traumatic past experiences. The goal is to promote self-confidence, empathy, social cohesion, and empowerment of individual voices.

In 2012, Zoukak worked on a theatre performance titled ‘Mashrah Watani,’ (Perform Autopsy) in partnership with War Child Holland and aligned with Sustainable Democracy Centre (SDC)’s project “Performance for Peace”. It started as a series of workshops with SDC’s youth clubs partly focusing on history and dealing with the past. The performance had been performed for more than 50 times over the course of two years in various places across the country, aiming to provoke individuals’ embedded emotions and contradictory perceptions of history and the war. The plot symbolized the history of Lebanon in a dead corpse, long ago killed by its internal political organism, representing the dichotomy between society as a victim of a war-ridden history, and as a producer of a political class. The performance addressed controversial notions such as‘Al-Shahid, Al-Batal, Al-Qatel, Al-Shaab(respectively Martyr, Hero, Perpetrator, People) to render them to a common shared feeling of loss.

In collaboration with War Child Holland, Sustainable Democracy Centre, and Peace Youth Clubs, Zoukak used Mashrah Watani (Perform Autopsy) as an interactive platform to collect and assemble individual stories about the war. These narratives provided the basis for another performance titled ‘Jana, Jana, Jana’ (Heavens) in 2014. It was performed in over 20 locations targeting schools, universities and the mass in general. In this performance, the story of the fierce history of Lebanon through the voices of three women was told, addressing conventional understanding of masculinity and patriarchy in Lebanon as well as its influence on historiography. It also addresses individuals’ emotional experiences with historical narratives, as well as the amnesty law in 1991.

This movie elaborates on experiences during the civil war. In April, 1975, the civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Muslim-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.

"The Insult" is a 2017 Lebanese drama film directed by Ziad Doueiri and co-written by Doueiri and Joelle Touma. Lebanese Christian Tony (Adel Karam) and Palestinian refugee Yasser (Kamel El Basha) exchange harsh words after Yasser tries to repair a drainpipe on Tony's balcony. The fallout leads to violence, courtroom confrontations and national attention. Each one of the two main characters is revealed to have been affected by a traumatic historical event in his youth: the Damour massacre in the case of Tony, and Black September in the case of Yasser. Moreover, there are references to Bachir Gemayel and Ariel Sharon, as prominent characters of the Lebanese civil war.

Wahdatouna Khalasouna Gathering (WKG) supports civil peace through its regular Civil Peace Observatory, which is an analysis report of the political and civil security situation. It aims to cover armed conflicts, political violence and human rights violations. It is published on WKG’s website and distributed every two weeks alongside regular written public statements and Press Conferences, in order to highlight major conflicts and tensions, raise awareness and advocate civil peace.

Since 2009, Wahdatouna Khalasouna Gathering (WKG) has been supporting the families of the disappeared through advocacy and lobbying. Assaad Chaftari, former president of WKG, met the International Red Cross in Geneva to ask for support in providing a safe space for different leaders willing to disclose information about mass graves. In addition, WKG carries out awareness raising campaigns in schools, universities and through the media, focusing on civil peace and the civil wars. WKG uses experiences and testimonies of victims and former fighters to raise awareness among youth on the consequences of the war. Their awareness raising approach is carried out in the form of letters from the former generation, both victims and former fighters, to the post-war generations.

In 2008, Wahdatouna Khalasouna Gathering produced six statements, sent to politicians’ hotel rooms in Doha where the National Dialogue was taking place (i.e. Dialogue between all major Lebanese political parties following political deadlock and a two-weeks armed conflict between Lebanese militias in the streets of Beirut and Mount Lebanon). The statements emphasized politicians’ responsibility to find an agreement to avoid civil conflict. A code of conduct prepared by Wahdatouna Khalasouna Gathering was signed by the political parties, and a paper to protect civil peace in the parliament library, signed by over 45 association and organization was published. Today, Wahdatouna Khalasouna Gathering campaigns and pushes to integrate civil peace as a priority in ministerial statements.