This collective volume gathers the Bidayat centenary file on Greater Lebanon and reopens 1920 as a contested historical moment rather than a harmless founding celebration. Its essays move through French colonial rule, political economy, sectarian engineering, border making, and the competing projects that shaped the Lebanese entity. The book matters because it returns the question of origin to conflict, power, and social struggle, in a field of inquiry with which Fawwaz Traboulsi has long been closely identified.