The new chapter, Uncertain Times — War Diaries, commissioned for the Biennale of Sydney, continues Lamia Joreige’s research into the period between the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the French and British Mandates in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine (1913 – 1921), through the diaries of Australian soldiers who fought in the Levant as part of the Allied forces during World War I. Combining her own drawings and notes with research materials — photographs, maps, soldiers’ personal and military accounts, as well as paintings produced during their deployment in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt — Joreige creates a montage-like chronicle of war and of a landscape undergoing profound transformation between 1914 and 1919.