Three Posters: Reflections on a Video/Performance

Khoury, Elias; Mroué, Rabih

doi:10.1162/dram.2006.50.3.182

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“…Martyrdom has special salience in Lebanon and is a key to civil war history. In the theatrical performance Three Posters (Khoury and Mroué 2006), the authors-cum-actors explore martyrdom using narrative excerpts from authentic videos recorded by a young man preparing for his mission against the Israeli invaders in 1985. The would-be martyr rehearses for the video that will be aired on national TV shortly after his death.…”

Section: Martyrmentioning

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Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon

Knudsen¹

2016

Anthropology of the Middle East

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This article furthers the study of post-civil war memorialisation in Lebanon by analysing the trajectory of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri from statesman to martyr. This transformative process offers a window into the symbolism of Lebanese statehood, and demonstrates how the politicisation of confessional martyrs is used to decry injustice and stake out claims to the state. There is no tradition for prosecuting and punishing political murders in Lebanon, causing victims to be pronounced martyrs. Impunity is therefore the major reason why martyrs and memorialising are so widespread. To this end, the article offers a semiotic reading of Hariri's posthumous transformation from political patron to patron saint, and is a contribution towards the importance of martyr symbolism for understanding the purported weakness of Lebanese statehood.

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Section: Martyrmentioning

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Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon

Knudsen¹

2016

Anthropology of the Middle East

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Critical Hope

Kesrouany¹

2023

Critical Times

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This article explores the theory and practice of critique in the works of the Lebanese Communist intellectual Husayn Muruwwa (1910–1987) and his grandson Rabih Mroué (b. 1967). Husayn Muruwwa, one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, reinvented literary criticism and cultural critique in the 1950s and '60s. His grandson, one of the most prominent Arab visual artists, has been redefining the critical approach to visual representation since the Lebanese civil war. The article pits Husayn Muruwwa's critique based on collective hope and emancipation against his grandson's vision of an individualistic critique based on desire. It considers the critical and political writings of Husayn Muruwwa and Rabih Mroué's performances, video lectures, and interviews to explore specifically how they represent hope in relation to critique, and it ultimately suggests a participatory aesthetics that is common to both and that transcends their autobiographical statements and establishes resonances between their thought. Their approaches to critique, the article illustrates, play out as revised inheritances of both the Arab renaissance (nahda) and the national liberation movements in the 1970s. These revisions create a continuity that is critical to understanding the relationship between critique and hope in the Arab intellectual tradition.

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Global Consciousness and Cosmopolitanism in Appendice by Lina Saneh

Houssami¹

2008

Ecumenica

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Three Posters: Reflections on a Video/Performance

Cited by 3 publications

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Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon

Death of a Statesman - Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post-Civil War Lebanon

Critical Hope

Global Consciousness and Cosmopolitanism in Appendice by Lina Saneh

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