If you are seeking to challenge politically-charged hegemonic narratives, and to understand and reconcile with histories that are officially kept out of educational books, you’ve come to the right place.
Lebanon Memory Archive is a multimedia website that curates the stories and conversations surrounding the necessary memory of the violence in Lebanon, with a focus on the civil war.
Our Mission
Ignite Conversations
Challenge Hegemonic Narratives
Facilitate Reconciliation
Badna Naaref (We want to know)
“Badna Naaref” is an oral history project launched in 2012 in Lebanon. Twelve schools, public and private, located in Greater Beirut, participated in training sessions and invited students to document their parents’ stories in writing and in film. A website was created to host the summaries of these testimonies. But in the past few years it went off line.
We decided to republish the content of the original website to keep the stories alive and available for anyone who would like to remember or learn about Lebanon’s war.
About A War
About A War (2018) is a documentary by Daniele Rugo and Abi Weaver. The feature length film follows three ex-fighters as they work towards breaking the cycle of violence by sharing their painful experiences with Lebanon’s youth.
The filmmakers are now working on expanding their work to also showcase additional stories they have come across and were not able to include in the original film.
Memory & Documentation Projects
Numerous organizations and individuals have dedicated their time and effort to document the history and memory of violence —of the civil war, subsequent assassinations, August 4, 2020 in Lebanon; and also of the Palestinian and Syrian struggles.
Our website aims at centralizing all of these resources in order to highlight and promote the work that has been done to push back against the narratives of oligarchies in the region, and to fight against the forced amnesia and erasure of the people’s experiences. This section is a living archive that can guide anyone interested to relevant projects (testimonies, photographs, digital art, etc).