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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2015

From Frontline to Borderscape: The Hizbullah Memorial Museum in South of Lebanon

Daniel Meier

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Among the cultural production on borderlines in the Middle East, the Hizbullah Museum on the site of “Mleeta” drawn on several aspects that inscribes it as a borderscape as it links politics with aesthetics. Built in 2010 on the former frontline of the Israeli occupied zone in South Lebanon, Mleeta articulate heritage, memory, and leisure with politics, education and morality. As part of the resistance society building, the blurring of the boundaries between tourism, architecture and ideology is done through the specific using that is ordering the landscape and the natural environment of this southern borderland as a vantage ground for its vision of the world. This major transformation of the borderland into a borderscape was render possible because of the transformation of South Lebanon into a Hizbullah’s military stronghold since the end of the 1980s and thanks to a new political trade-off after the Syrian withdrawal of Lebanon (2005) that confirmed its influence over the Lebanese political game. The memorial museum of Mleeta is part of a broader cultural policy adopted by Hizbullah that intends to transform the previous occupied zone of South Lebanon into a touristic landscape including several other sites and a “resistance trail”. In this framework, the site of Mleeta provide with a powerful narrative about resistance and memory due to its location on the former borderline set up during the Israeli occupation of South of Lebanon (1978-2000).

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halshs-01338276 , version 1 (28-06-2016)

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Daniel Meier. From Frontline to Borderscape: The Hizbullah Memorial Museum in South of Lebanon. Chiara Brambilla, Jussi Laine, James Wesley Scott, Gianluca Bocchi. Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making, Routledge, pp.77-86, 2015, 9781472451460. ⟨halshs-01338276⟩
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