"This present destruction is in many ways a further scattering of the shreds of past erasures as rare (possibly unique) texts, archives, and sources that have survived centuries of devastation are now lost. Gone are the offices and paper files of the baladiyya, the mosques, the schools..."
Tylor Brand, author of Famine Worlds, reflects on the past and present of #Israel and #Lebanon
Pt 1 https://blog.sup.org/middle-east-studies/on-lebanon-and-loss/
Pt 2 https://blog.sup.org/middle-east-studies/on-lebanon-and-loss-2/
#warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #colonialViolence