In June 2012, ACT launched the Artistic installation "17 000", by Reine Mahfouz, at the Ministry of Tourism show windows.
In the first show windows, hundreds of black-and-white small pictures of the 17,000 missing and abducted individuals during Lebanon’s civil war were stacked next to each other as a giant mural, with the inscription "17 000".
A collection of close up pictures of bulldozers portrayed by Reine Mahfouz was displayed in the center show window, with the inscription “Each one of them has a story, but we can never know all of the stories”. These pictures represent machines that dug the mass graves that enveloped the bodies of the missing and at the same that buried people who were in our lives but that we never identified.
The third show window "But for sure something of them remains…" was filled with dozens of clothes and belongings, representing one of the only things left behind for the relatives of disappeared from their loved ones.
