To survive after ceasefire, rebuild Lebanon for all its citizens
Mona Fawaz - 02.11.2024
Nabatiye, South Lebanon (Photo: Isabela Serhan, November 2024)
As people in Lebanon catch their breath, hoping for a fragile ceasefire to hold, can we dare to imagine a post-disaster scenario that brings us together, as citizens of one nation with multiple political beliefs and yet a shared commitment to live together?
Could reconstruction processes place us on a pathway to recover some sense of collective identity under the custody of a state with some form of legitimacy, or will we repeat the same patterns of earlier so-called “reconstruction” projects which consolidated the divisions brought by the violence they were meant to mend and hollowed out further public agencies to the benefit of patrons building constituencies through favours?
Read full article on The New Arab website.
Could reconstruction processes place us on a pathway to recover some sense of collective identity under the custody of a state with some form of legitimacy, or will we repeat the same patterns of earlier so-called “reconstruction” projects which consolidated the divisions brought by the violence they were meant to mend and hollowed out further public agencies to the benefit of patrons building constituencies through favours?
Read full article on The New Arab website.