A Bitter Encounter: The Shia Community under Israeli Occupation in South Lebanon
(2017) Panel on ‘Israel & Lebanon: Comparisons, relations, and collective memory’, MESA 2017 Annual Conference — Location: Washington D.C., USA (18.November.2017)
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- Grounded in constructivist and post-colonial approaches, the paper will focus on the early encounter between Israeli forces and the civilian Shia population of South Lebanon in an attempt to trace the multiple factors that played into the mutual construction of enmity. Based on UNIFIL reports and interviews with top military officials who served with the force in the 1980s and 1990s, on primary sources (testimonies, movies, reports, etc.) from Israel and South Lebanon (where fieldwork is to be conducted next summer), the research will inquire into the various forms of violence that have been (objectively?) exerted and (subjectively?) experienced, the identify frames that allowed for such violence to be projected and how it fed into the construction of a long-term and apparently unsurmountable enmity. Moving beyond the local encounter, the research will also try to factor in the wider identity interplays in the region (Jews vs Muslims; Iran as champion of Lebanese Shia…) and also question the role that might have been played by the weakness if not absence of the Lebanese state as a public service provider (including in terms of security) and a relevant identity framer (leaving therefore room to non-negotiable primary identities).
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Aoun, E. (2017). A Bitter Encounter: The Shia Community under Israeli Occupation in South Lebanon. Panel on ‘Israel & Lebanon: Comparisons, relations, and collective memory’, MESA 2017 Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/126518