Writings

"For a long after the end of the Lebanese civil war, the memory of the war was tabooed and repressed in the public sphere in Lebanon. This thesis examines the nature of the emergent collective memory of the war. The first part theorizes collective memory in general and the dynamics of social memory in post-war Lebanon in particular. The latter part of the thesis examines two examples of public memory of the war, namely two films on the war and the public apologies of former LF militiaman Assa'ad Shaftari."

Thesis for the Master of Studies, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, June 2002