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January 2011

January 2011: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Hariri's government collapses as Hezbollah's ministers resign.
Hezbollah's ministers and their allies resigned, toppling the cabinet during the dispute over the UN tribunal's Hariri inquiry.

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February 2011

February-March 2011: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Weekly demonstrations call for abolishing the sectarian system.
Weekly marches against the sectarian system drew secular and leftist activists inspired by the Arab Spring; Lebanon, they said, had some twenty dictators, not one.

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March 2011

March 2011: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

The Syrian uprising begins and immediately plays out in Lebanon.
Lebanese took sides from the revolt's first month; dozens of young Lebanese and Palestinians crossed from Akkar and Hermel to join the rebels around Homs.

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June 2011

June 2011: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Najib Mikati forms a government dominated by Hezbollah's allies.
Hezbollah's allies took many cabinet seats; Picard calls it an '8 March' government.

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September 2011

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Since 2005 · From the books

Syrian and Lebanese intellectuals renew their 2006 declaration.
Nine months into the Syrian uprising, the signatories reissued their 2006 appeal, 'For the sake of the Lebanese-Syrian future'.

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September 2011: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai backs Bashar al-Assad.
Patriarch Bechara Rai sided with Assad, fearing Islamists would win, though his community was hostile to the Syrian regime.

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January 2014

Thursday, 2 January 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Double bombing in Haret Hreik kills nine.
The attack struck the Shiite district of Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburb.

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Thursday, 16 January 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Suicide bombing in Hermel.
The suicide attack hit the town of Hermel in the northern Bekaa.

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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Suicide bombing in Haret Hreik.
A further suicide attack hit Haret Hreik in the southern suburb.

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January 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

The Special Tribunal begins hearing witnesses.
Hezbollah members and accomplices in the Syrian regime were implicated in the STL trial near The Hague, where Lebanese witnesses appeared for both sides.

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February 2014

Monday, 3 February 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Suicide bombing in Choueifat.
A suicide bomber struck at Choueifat, south of Beirut.

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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Bombing at the Iranian cultural centre in Haret Hreik kills six.
The bomb targeted the Iranian cultural centre in Haret Hreik.

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February 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Tammam Salam forms a 'national unity' government.
Picard: the Salam cabinet rejected any asylum policy, and Lebanon refused official camps for Syrian refugees.

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March 2014

March-September 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Repeated suicide attacks on Hezbollah areas in the southern suburb and the Bekaa.
Many suicide bombings between March and September 2014 were aimed at Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh and the Bekaa.

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April 2014

spring 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

A curfew for Syrians is posted in Bourj Hammoud.
After a brawl between young Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, the municipality of largely Armenian Bourj Hammoud posted notices barring foreigners and Syrians from its streets from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.

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May 2014

May 2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

Michel Suleiman's term ends; a second presidential vacancy begins.
No head of state would be elected for twenty-nine months.

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August 2014

Friday, 15 August 2014

Since 2005 · From the books

Ahmad al-Assir is captured.
De Clerck and Malsagne's chronology records the arrest of Ahmad al-Assir, the Salafist preacher whose followers fought the army at Abra in June 2013.

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2014

2014: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

New rules restrict Syrian refugees' residence and work.
Refugees, a quarter to a third of the population from 2014, neared 1.3 million a year later. Lebanon refused official camps; Syrians, once exempt, now needed an entry visa and a Lebanese sponsor (kafil), and most jobs were closed to them under 2014 decrees of the Tammam Salam government.

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January 2018

January 2018: day not established

Since 2005 · From the books

The United States returns five antiquities looted from Eshmoun.
One of the returned pieces was a life-size white marble bull's head from the Eshmoun sanctuary north of Sidon, plundered during the war.

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May 2018

Sunday, 6 May 2018

Since 2005 · From the books

First parliamentary elections in nine years.
Postponed for five years, the vote drew low turnout amid mistrust. Activists from the waste protests ran on independent lists; one unaffiliated candidate won a seat.

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November 2018

Monday, 12 November 2018

Since 2005 · From the books

Parliament adopts Law 105 on the missing and forcibly disappeared.
Wadad Halwani, head of the committee of families of the kidnapped and disappeared, whose husband was taken in 1982, broke down as deputies applauded. The law created a commission to trace detainees believed alive in Syria, identify remains in mass graves and investigate wartime forced disappearances.

Sources differ: Estimates differ. The most quoted figure, 17,415, comes from the Committee of the Kidnapped and Disappeared (founded 1982); NGOs count 5,000 to 8,000 forced disappearances (Hassoun Abou Jaoudé; de Clerck & Malsagne p. 419).

Art and memory

testimony Wadad Halwani founded the Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared after her husband was abducted in 1982. He is still missing; the vote renewed her hope.
film De Clerck and Malsagne cite Daniele Rugo's documentary The Soil and the Sea (2023), co-produced with Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoudé, among war-memory works inspired by the missing.

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