Lebanese Society – Fawwaz Traboulsi

Papers EN Anthropology Art & Literature 2012

Reflections on Culture and Folklore in Lebanon

Folklore is the "matrix of every culture": the dabkeh is a pre-monotheistic fertility rite, proverbs are ruins of old tales—and the Rahbanis and Ziad created modern folklore confronting war and hypocrisy.

Articles EN History Politics 2004

Lebanese Wars: Memory and Forgetfulness

Forgetting is "the life force of memory"—and what Lebanon practiced is programmed amnesia. What is needed is remembering causes—and we need daydreams (hope) as much as memory.

Papers EN Art & Literature 1992

Crisis and Memory – in the Theatre of the Rahbani Brothers and Fayrouz

Jisr al-Qamar manufactures forgetfulness by miracle; Petra recasts civil war as liberation—and the erased question is the same: where does the conflict come from?