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Exhibiting the “Just-Lived Past”: Hizbullah's Nationalist Narratives in Transnational Political Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2008

Lara Deeb
Lara Deeb
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University of California, Irvine
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On 20 July 2006, eight days into an Israeli air assault on Lebanon, Israeli shells hit the Khiam detention center, the notorious site where Lebanese resistance fighters and civilians had been imprisoned and tortured during the twenty-two-year (1978–2000) Israeli occupation of south Lebanon. A news article describing the destruction of the center was subtitled, “After being remade in recent years into a monument to political atrocity, the jail at Khiam now lies destroyed by Israeli strikes,” and noted, “Fragments of walls, concrete held erect by stubborn rebar, point mute to the sky” (Quilty 2006).

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 369 - 399
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Copyright © Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History 2008

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