The Political Economy of Militia Control – Brown University

Wars have no sense but functions—Lebanese militias achieved the "supreme capitalist phantasm": profit without capital investment, through ten illegal ports and a mafia predation economy.

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.

Trauma and Memory

Three processes: amnesia, memory, forgetting. Lebanon practiced programmed amnesia—what is needed is remembering causes, not violence. "We can only forget what we remember."

الأسرار الفعلية في كتاب ألان مينارغ:” أسرار حرب لبنان”

The Real Secrets in Alain Menargues' Book: "Secrets of the Lebanon War"

As-Safir

Behind the slogan of "protecting the constitution," Bashir Gemayel's actual project was a military-militia coup to establish a federal state under Maronite hegemony—and the LF's own documents are the witness.

How to prevent civil war: Remember the last one

The Daily Star

An interview: the simple reason to remember the war is to avoid another—and "constructed amnesia" protects warlords-turned-rulers. The young generation carries a "big black hole."