The Beiruter

Lebanon launches the Global Archive of Lebanese Identity, inviting people at home and abroad to preserve the country’s collective memory through personal photographs, documents and recordings while retaining control over their contributions.

In the second installment of a three-part investigation, The Beiruter traces how political mobilization, Hezbollah’s rise, and decades of war transformed Dahiyeh into one of Lebanon’s most politically charged places.

In the first installment of a three-part investigation, The Beiruter draws on archival records to trace the physical, economic, demographic and linguistic transformations that produced modern Dahiyeh, whose name would later acquire extraordinary political weight.

In the absence of a centralized archival system, a fragmented network of institutions has taken on the work of preserving Lebanon’s vast and contested historical record.