Revisiting Martyrs' Square...again: Absence and Presence in Cultural Memory

Dados, NN

Revisiting Martyrs' Square...again: Absence and Presence in Cultural Memory

Dados, NN

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Publisher:: Transaction Publishers
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Citation:: Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance, 2009, 1, pp. 169 - 181
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Dados, NN https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1708-4805	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Lambert, L	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Ochsner, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance, 2009, 1, pp. 169 - 181	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9783899429626	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128650
dc.description.abstract	During the Lebanese civil war,' the area known as Martyrs' Square (Sahat al-Shuhadah) was transformed into a line of demarcation between Beirut's so-called "Eastern" and "Western" sectors. The Square, previously a thriving cultural hub, had been along-standing emblem of Beirut's cosmopolitanism, its literary license and its political freedom. In the years 1915 and 1916, this same square had witnessed the hangings of Beirut's original martyrs under the Ottomans, the martyrs whose later commemoration gave the square its name. Since the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 and his burial in the nearby area, there have been several attempts to reclaim some of the numerous associations of the past: the square as a symbol of revolution, the square as the centre of the city,the square as a cosmopolitan sphere, the square as a symbol ofnational unity, the square as memorial for Lebanon's martyrs.	en_US
dc.publisher	Transaction Publishers	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance	en_US
dc.title	Revisiting Martyrs' Square...again: Absence and Presence in Cultural Memory	en_US
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Abstract:

During the Lebanese civil war,' the area known as Martyrs' Square (Sahat al-Shuhadah) was transformed into a line of demarcation between Beirut's so-called "Eastern" and "Western" sectors. The Square, previously a thriving cultural hub, had been along-standing emblem of Beirut's cosmopolitanism, its literary license and its political freedom. In the years 1915 and 1916, this same square had witnessed the hangings of Beirut's original martyrs under the Ottomans, the martyrs whose later commemoration gave the square its name. Since the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 and his burial in the nearby area, there have been several attempts to reclaim some of the numerous associations of the past: the square as a symbol of revolution, the square as the centre of the city,the square as a cosmopolitan sphere, the square as a symbol ofnational unity, the square as memorial for Lebanon's martyrs.

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