Founded in 1999 by artist Walid Raad, The Atlas Group documents a fictional archive consisting of lectures, documentaries, and installations about Lebanon’s civil war. Through it, Raad has created an alternative world, one in which conflict is not portrayed as a succession of facts, but as an abstract composition of memories and media reports.

My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair is the second volume in a series of artist’s books disguised as archival publications by The Atlas Group. The book documents work that was in the AGYU’s 2004 exhibition of The Atlas Group: images produced by photojournalists depicting the use of car bombs in the 1975–1991 Lebanese wars.